Abstract
Why is support the radical right higher in some geographic locations than others? This article argues that what is frequently classified as the “rural” bases of radical-right support in previous research is in part the result of something different: communities that were in the historical “periphery” in the center–periphery conflicts of modern nation-state formation. Inspired by a classic state-building literature that emphasizes the prevalence of a “wealth of tongues”—or nonstandard linguistic dialects in a region—as a definition of the periphery, we use data from more than 725,000 geo-coded responses in a linguistic survey in Germany to show that voters from historically peripheral geographic communities are more likely to vote for the radical right today.
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Tidsskrift | American Political Science Review |
| Vol/bind | 118 |
| Nummer | 3 |
| Sider (fra-til) | 1480-1496 |
| Antal sider | 17 |
| ISSN | 0003-0554 |
| DOI | |
| Status | Udgivet - aug. 2024 |