Right-wing populist party supporters: Dissatisfied but not direct democrats
Right-wing populist party supporters: Dissatisfied but not direct democrats
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DOI：
10.1111/1475-6765.12166
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发表时间：
2017-02-01
影响因子：
5.3
通讯作者：
McDonnell, Duncan
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作者：
Bowler, Shaun;Denemark, David;McDonnell, Duncan
右翼民粹主义政党倾向于将对自由民主运作方式的联合收割机批评与对更大直接民主的呼吁结合起来。但他们的选民也支持直接民主吗？本文利用调查数据，首先考察了澳大利亚、加拿大和新西兰的右翼民粹主义候选人是否比其他政党的候选人更支持直接民主。第二，右翼民粹主义选民对民主和直接民主的运作的看法进行了调查。虽然右翼民粹主义候选人更有可能支持直接民主，但右翼民粹主义支持者并没有反映候选人。尽管这些人对民主的运作方式最不满意，但他们并不一定比其他选民更赞成全民公决。这些发现对我们如何看待民粹主义和直接民主之间的关系以及为纠正民粹主义不满而提出的补救措施都有影响。
Right-wing populist parties tend to combine criticism of how liberal democracy functions with calls for greater direct democracy. But do their voters share that support for direct democracy? In this article, survey data is used to examine, first, whether right-wing populist candidates in Australia, Canada and New Zealand were more supportive of direct democracy than candidates of other parties. Second, the views of right-wing populist voters about the functioning of democracy and direct democracy are investigated. While right-wing populist candidates turned out to be far more likely to support direct democracy, right-wing populist supporters did not mirror the candidates. Although these were among the most dissatisfied with how democracy worked, they did not necessarily favour referendums more than other voters. The findings have implications both for how we conceive of the relationship between populism and direct democracy and the remedies proposed for redressing populist discontent.