ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Sub-national economic inequalities and electoral change in Europe
Economic grievances accounts of the rise of the populist radical right concentrate on poorer places that suffer from lack of opportunity. These geographic divides have explained the rise of Trump in the US or Brexit in the UK. However, the focus on ‘left-behind’ places conceals a paradox. Populist radical right voting across Europe is also concentrated in many objectively wealthier places, where theoretically conditions for this phenomenon are not favourable. To address this paradox, INEQCHANGE innovates through a re-conceptualisation and measurement of the sub-national economic inequality context that considers long-term structural change and shorter to medium-term fluctuations in living…
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