Bottom-up Populism: How Relative Deprivation and Populist Attitudes Mobilize Leaderless Anti-Government Protest

Abstract: The present research focuses on populism as a bottom-up phenomenon that emerges from shared perceptions of relative deprivation. We predict that by serving as a shared ideological basis, populist attitudes can mobilize leaderless anti-government protest across ideological boundaries. We test this prediction in the context of the French Yellow Vests movement. Using a sample of French citizens (N = 562), we compare the effects of different indicators of relative deprivation on Yellow Vest protest participation and the extent to which populist attitudes account for these relationships. Results indicate that protests were fuelled by indicators of relative deprivation at the individual and group levels. Populist attitudes were best predicted by vertical comparisons between “the people” and “the elite” and fully accounted for the relationship between this type of group relative deprivation and protesting. Conversely, populist attitudes only partially accounted for the relationships betwe.... https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/7349

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Bottom-up Populism: How Relative Deprivation and Populist Attitudes Mobilize Leaderless Anti-Government Protest ; volume:9 ; number:2 ; day:18 ; month:10 ; year:2021 ; Journal of social and political psychology ; 9, Heft 2 (18.10.2021)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Lüders, Adrian ; Urbanska, Karolina ; Wollast, Robin ; Nugier, Armelle ; Guimond, Serge

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jspp.7349
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021112704091631624074
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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