Polarization in the wake of the European refugee crisis: a longitudinal study of the Finnish political elite’s attitudes towards refugees and the environment

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• dc.contributor.author Lönnqvist, Jan Erik M.
• dc.contributor.author Ilmarinen, Ville Juhani
• dc.contributor.author Sortheix, Florencia M.
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-07-24T10:51:34Z
• dc.date.available 2020-07-24T10:51:34Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.description.abstract We investigated political polarization among the 28284 candidates in the Finnish municipal election who ran for municipal council in 2012, 2017, or both, and had responded to a Voting Advice Application. Our results revealed political polarization in terms of both conversion (longitudinal analysis, n = 6643) and recruitment (cross-sectional comparison of first-time candidates, n = 13054). The populist radical-right Finns Party became even more anti-refugee, and the pro-refugee Green League became even more pro-refugee. The Finns Party, in particular, has constructed the Green League as their enemies, which could explain why the Finns Party moved in an anti-environmental direction, as well as the increased issue-alignment between refugee-attitudes and environmental attitudes. We also observed increased within-party homogeneity in almost all parties. In the discussion, we focus on the nature of the association between refugee and environmental attitudes.
• dc.description.sponsorship The research was funded by the Academy of Finland grant nr. 309537 to the first author and by the Emil Aaltonen Foundation grant nr. 170303 to the third author.
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• dc.identifier.citation Lönnqvist JEM, Ilmarinen VJ, Sortheix FM. Polarization in the wake of the European refugee crisis: a longitudinal study of the Finnish political elite’s attitudes towards refugees and the environment. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. 2020;8(1):173-97. DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v8i1.1236
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v8i1.1236
• dc.identifier.issn 2195-3325
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/45193
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Leibniz-Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID)
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Social and Political Psychology. 2020;8(1):173-97
• dc.rights This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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• dc.subject.keyword Political psychology
• dc.subject.keyword Attitude change
• dc.subject.keyword Immigration
• dc.subject.keyword Environment
• dc.subject.keyword Populism
• dc.subject.keyword Elections
• dc.title Polarization in the wake of the European refugee crisis: a longitudinal study of the Finnish political elite’s attitudes towards refugees and the environment
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