TY - JOUR
T1 - Populist radical right-wing parties and the assault on political correctness
T2 - The impact of Vox in Spain
AU - Galais, Carol
AU - Pérez-Rajó, Juan
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Spanish Minister for Science and innovation (grant number PID2020-113030RB-I00) and the Spanish Ministry for Education, Culture and Sports (grant number FPU18/06092).
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PY - 2023/9
Y1 - 2023/9
N2 - The significant rise in the number of populist radical right (PRR) parties has not been accompanied by a parallel interest in the consequences that these parties may have on public opinion. The limited range of attitudes that the literature has considered so far can be broadened to include political correctness (PC), given the increasing attacks on this concept made by PRR parties. To address the effects of such attacks, we examine the Spanish case, where the presence of a new PRR party makes anti-PC messages a recent, quite exogenous stimulus. Using panel data to address potential non-recursive relationships and time-variant effects, we find that individuals are indeed more prone to lowering their levels of PC after finding Vox an attractive electoral option. Our results inform the debates on the effects that ‘cultural wars’, anti-woke and anti-PC rhetorics may have on public opinion, which could lead ultimately to harmful consequences for minority groups and social cohesion.
AB - The significant rise in the number of populist radical right (PRR) parties has not been accompanied by a parallel interest in the consequences that these parties may have on public opinion. The limited range of attitudes that the literature has considered so far can be broadened to include political correctness (PC), given the increasing attacks on this concept made by PRR parties. To address the effects of such attacks, we examine the Spanish case, where the presence of a new PRR party makes anti-PC messages a recent, quite exogenous stimulus. Using panel data to address potential non-recursive relationships and time-variant effects, we find that individuals are indeed more prone to lowering their levels of PC after finding Vox an attractive electoral option. Our results inform the debates on the effects that ‘cultural wars’, anti-woke and anti-PC rhetorics may have on public opinion, which could lead ultimately to harmful consequences for minority groups and social cohesion.
KW - Political correctness
KW - Populist
KW - Populist radical right
KW - Public opinion
KW - Radical right
KW - Vox
KW - Woke
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U2 - 10.1177/01925121231190555
DO - 10.1177/01925121231190555
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85171193821
SN - 0192-5121
VL - 44
SP - 492
EP - 506
JO - International Political Science Review
JF - International Political Science Review
IS - 4
ER -