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Citizens' candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections
Authors: Helske Satu, Kawalerowicz Juta
Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD
Publication year: 2023
Journal: Acta Politica
Journal acronym: ACTA POLIT
Volume: 58
Number of pages: 24
ISSN: 0001-6810
eISSN: 1741-1416
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00304-8(external)
Web address : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41269-023-00304-8(external)
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/180385146(external)
This article uses Swedish register data to study the labour market experiences of radical right-wing candidates standing in local elections. We look at different measures of economic insecurity (labour market participation trajectories, experience of unemployment in social networks and relative growth in the number of jobs for foreign-born workers vis-a-vis natives) and examine whether they are predictors of candidates running for the Sweden Democrats, the main radical right-wing party in Sweden, as opposed to running for mainstream political parties. We find that the labour market trajectories of such candidates are markedly different from those of mainstream party candidates. Those with turbulent or out-of-labour market trajectories are much more likely to run for the Sweden Democrats, as opposed to other parties. The same is also true for candidates embedded in social networks with higher levels of unemployment, while working in a high-skilled industry markedly lowers the probability of running for the Sweden Democrats, especially for male candidates with low educational attainment. We find mixed results for the ethnic threat hypothesis.
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