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  • Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany

  • DANIEL ZIBLATT, HANNO HILBIG, DANIEL BISCHOF
  • Journal:
    American Political Science Review / Volume 118 / Issue 3 / August 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 October 2023, pp. 1480-1496
    Print publication:
    August 2024

  • 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.

  • 12 - The Causes of Populism and the Problem of Cultural Majority Rights

  • Edited by Liav Orgad, European University Institute, Florence, Ruud Koopmans, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
  • Book:
    Majorities, Minorities, and the Future of Nationhood
    Published online:
    12 November 2022
    Print publication:
    24 November 2022, pp 294-306

  • Summary

    This chapter analyzes historical and cross-national evidence to contend that the angry politics of populism does not simply reflect the autonomous preferences of voters shocked by the pressures of globalization. Rather, voters express right-wing identity issues only after politicians – especially mainstream center-right politicians – have accentuated appeals to cultural self-defense in their own electoral campaigns. In brief, the identity appeals of populism emerge as a product of mainstream political parties’ efforts to cope with the contradictions of capitalism and democracy in an age of high socioeconomic inequality. In this sense, the very notion of a cultural majority is itself politically constructed – an imagined community of ephemeral democratic normative weight, crafted by center-right political parties as they scramble to try win electoral majorities in an age of heightened socioeconomic inequality. While Madisonian political majorities have normative weight, cultural majorities do not. If correct, this argument suggests that a focus on addressing the economic roots of populism is pivotal as is developing a civic notion of citizenship, no matter the ethnicity or background of citizens.

Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
  • Daniel Ziblatt
  • Published online:
    17 April 2017
    Print publication:
    17 April 2017
  • How do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern political democracy in Europe from its modest beginnings in 1830s Britain to Adolf Hitler's 1933 seizure of power in Weimar Germany. Based on rich historical and quantitative evidence, the book offers a major reinterpretation of European history and the question of how stable political democracy is achieved. The barriers to inclusive political rule, Ziblatt finds, were not inevitably overcome by unstoppable tides of socioeconomic change, a simple triumph of a growing middle class, or even by working class collective action. Instead, political democracy's fate surprisingly hinged on how conservative political parties – the historical defenders of power, wealth, and privilege – recast themselves and coped with the rise of their own radical right. With striking modern parallels, the book has vital implications for today's new and old democracies under siege.

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