The last decade has witnessed a political shift in voters’ preferences. The upsurge of populist parties has involved countries in the whole world. The thesis focuses the attention on the European context, in a moment in history when all regions are experiencing an increase in unemployment and a decrease in per-capita income. At this very moment, a collapse of citizens’ support towards social and democratic parties occurs and a number of populist parties emerge, re-addressing the politics’ concerns on people’s needs and demands. Going beyond the merely descriptive voting patterns, the ambition is to design different empirical scenarios where multiple forces and factors move together and shed light on the mechanisms at play. In pursuing this objective, the thesis fully dives into the geography of discontent literature, investigating the mechanisms behind the populist outbreak and its geographic heterogeneity. Chapter 1 draws the academic frame in which we embed the empirical works. Chapter 2 explores the role of regional institutional quality in shaping people’s political preferences in European regions. Chapter 3 extends the previous chapter’s contribution, by enriching the OLS-IV analysis via the adoption of a recent methodological tool, i.e. the Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR). Chapter 4 shapes the last part of the work, turning the attention to the Italian context. Implementing a municipal-level analysis, it investigates the role of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, in shifting political preferences.

Electoral geography and political transformations: the rise of populist parties and its determinants / Ferrante, Chiara. - (2021 Jul 09).

Electoral geography and political transformations: the rise of populist parties and its determinants

FERRANTE, CHIARA
09/07/2021

Abstract

The last decade has witnessed a political shift in voters’ preferences. The upsurge of populist parties has involved countries in the whole world. The thesis focuses the attention on the European context, in a moment in history when all regions are experiencing an increase in unemployment and a decrease in per-capita income. At this very moment, a collapse of citizens’ support towards social and democratic parties occurs and a number of populist parties emerge, re-addressing the politics’ concerns on people’s needs and demands. Going beyond the merely descriptive voting patterns, the ambition is to design different empirical scenarios where multiple forces and factors move together and shed light on the mechanisms at play. In pursuing this objective, the thesis fully dives into the geography of discontent literature, investigating the mechanisms behind the populist outbreak and its geographic heterogeneity. Chapter 1 draws the academic frame in which we embed the empirical works. Chapter 2 explores the role of regional institutional quality in shaping people’s political preferences in European regions. Chapter 3 extends the previous chapter’s contribution, by enriching the OLS-IV analysis via the adoption of a recent methodological tool, i.e. the Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR). Chapter 4 shapes the last part of the work, turning the attention to the Italian context. Implementing a municipal-level analysis, it investigates the role of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, in shifting political preferences.
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