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Silva, Bruno Castanho, Fuks, Mario and Tamaki, Eduardo Ryo (2022). So thin it's almost invisible: Populist attitudes and voting behavior in Brazil. Elect. Stud., 75. OXFORD: ELSEVIER SCI LTD. ISSN 1873-6890

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Abstract

Contemporary research classifies populism as a thin-centered ideology, which can be attached to different host'' ideologies. Populist attitudes have been found to predict electoral support for populist candidates in Europe and the Americas, albeit still subsidiary to thickideological issue positions. With the concomitant rise of the radical right, the lingering question is how much do populist attitudes actually matter for voting. We test the effects of populist attitudes and ideology on vote choice in a likely case scenario, the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, using data from the Brazilian Election Study. Support for the far right populist candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, is explained by right-wing ideology and illiberal attitudes, with populist attitudes playing a very small role, if any. These results reinforce the idea that populist attitudes may be no more than a flamboyant but ultimately irrelevant packaging to explain the global rise of the far right.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Silva, Bruno Castanho UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Fuks, Mario UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Tamaki, Eduardo Ryo UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-668556
DOI:	10.1016/j.electstud.2021.102434
Journal or Publication Title:	Elect. Stud.
Volume:	75
Date:	2022
Publisher:	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Place of Publication:	OXFORD
ISSN:	1873-6890
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PEOPLE Multiple languages Political Science Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66855