Minority Group Size, Unemployment, and the Extreme Right Vote: The Crucial Case of Latvia
Abstract
Objectives
I test the importance of demographic and economic contextual variables for the success of extreme right parties.
Methods
I employ subnational data from the crucial case of Latvia to capture the effects of minority group size and economic change on the extreme right vote. Ethnic Latvians constitute a bare majority of the Latvian population and GDP dropped by 18 percent in 2009.
Results
I find that localities with...
Paper Details
Title
Minority Group Size, Unemployment, and the Extreme Right Vote: The Crucial Case of Latvia
Published Date
Sep 1, 2013
Journal
Volume
94
Issue
3
Pages
795 - 810
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