Populist political right opinions and political trust among Norwegian youth
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Seippel ØN, Strandbu Å. Populist political right opinions and political trust among Norwegian youth. Journal of Youth Studies. 2017;20(4):415-429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2016.1241863Abstract
Recent decades have seen the growth of various strands of rightwing
populist political orientations, where populism and critique
of immigration policies have been central. These ideological
developments have caused concern for the legitimacy of social
and political institutions. The question explored in this paper,
based on Norwegian survey data, is ‘Which types of right political
orientations exist among young people, and how do these
political attitudes affect trust in social and political institutions?’
The results reveal the existence of both a populist ‘new right’
political orientation similar to the ideology of the Progress Party
and a nativist ideology. The new right orientation contains two
sets of variables: (i) economic liberalism/state scepticism and (ii)
nationalist values. For trust in political institutions, the emerging
picture is complex because the nationalist dimension of both the
populist orientation and the nativist ideological orientation
implies a high level of trust in political institutions. To the extent
the new right political orientations causes mistrust, it seems to
come from the liberal economic, anti-statist values included in this
ideology. Based on these findings, future researchers should
distinguish more clearly between the ideological dimensions
going into populist political right orientations and the relationship
between attitudes and more practical implications of such
ideologies.
Publisher
Taylor & FrancisSeries
Journal of Youth Studies;Volume 20 - Issue 4Journal
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