Migration, Corruption, and Ideological Centrism: Explanations of Anti-Establishment Attitudes in the Czech Republic

Year, pages: 2021, 287 - 308

Migration, Corruption, and Ideological Centrism: Explana¬tions of Anti-Establishment Attitudes in the Czech Republic. Although the Czech Republic has experienced an unprecedented rise of anti-establishment political parties in recent decades, a systematic examination of anti-establishment attitudes among the public is still missing from the scholarly literature. This paper tests different explanations for anti-establishment attitudes among the voting population, working with the concepts of anti-political establishment parties, populism, and taking into account the specific national context. Using original data from the 2017 Czech National Election Study (N = 919), we show that anti-establishment attitudes among the Czech public stem from feelings of low political efficacy, the perceived salience of corruption, and anti-immigration attitudes. These results demonstrate that researchers need to consider contextual specifics, including the nature of diverse anti-establishment actors, when searching for the causes of anti-establishment attitudes in a particular country or region. Sociológia 2021, Vol. 53 (No. 3: 287-308)

Škvarenina, O., Havlík, V., Dostálová, V. 2021. Migration, Corruption, and Ideological Centrism: Explanations of Anti-Establishment Attitudes in the Czech Republic. In Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, vol. 53, no.3, pp. 287-308. 0049-1225. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2021.53.3.11

Škvarenina, O., Havlík, V., Dostálová, V. (2021). Migration, Corruption, and Ideological Centrism: Explanations of Anti-Establishment Attitudes in the Czech Republic. Sociológia - Slovak Sociological Review, 53(3), 287-308. 0049-1225. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2021.53.3.11

Publisher: The Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences