Producerist Attitudes and Support for Right-Wing Populism in the United States and Western Europe
Résumé
This paper examines the extent to which producerist attitudes may explain electoral support for right-wing populism in the US and Western Europe. While previous studies have looked at the role of producerist ideologies at the supply-side, this study focuses on (1) the demand-side (2) across the Atlantic divide, and (3) across different economic institutions and traditions. The paper uses original cross-national data to show that, contrary to conventional historical wisdom, producerist attitudes are no longer an exclusive feature of American politics. In fact, such attitudes are shared by citizens in the US as well as in Western Europe, albeit with country-specific modifications. Moreover, they are significantly linked with support for right- wing populism, independently of traditional economic cleavages, and together with other typical correlates of right-wing populist mobilization such as welfare chauvinism and authoritarianism.