ELECTORAL SUCCESS OF ĽSNS: THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN THE SPATIAL CONTEXT

DANA KUBĚNKOVÁ

https://doi.org/10.53465/EDAMBA.2021.9788022549301.266-276

 

Abstract: In this article, we examine the relationship between educational attainment and electoral success of populist radical right party in Slovakia – Ľudová Strana Naše Slovensko. We extend our estimation by taking into account the spatial context of the empirical data, suggesting that political and educational choices are formed early in life in families and communities. Therefore, to estimate how neighborhood influences its residents we are adding in our model spatially lagged explanatory variable referring to higher educational attainment, which represents the weighted average of the neighboring values for this variable. For the purpose of this estimation on the link between educational attainment and voting support for ĽSNS, we use the results of parliamentary elections held in 2020 on the level of LAU 2. Along with our main explanatory variable relating to university educational attainment, we also include socio-economic and demographic factors as control variables, which were previously empirically proven as statistically significant for the electoral performance of populist radical right parties. Our findings imply that a higher share of residents with university education attainment in neighboring municipalities has an influence on the election results for ĽSNS in the observed municipality. Residents with university educational attainment are less likely to vote for ĽSNS.

Keywords: university educational attainment, LSNS, populist radical right parties

JEL classification: D72, R11, R58

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Online publication date: 12 May 2022

 

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Kuběnková, D. (2022). Electoral Success of ĽSNS: The Role of Education in the Spatial Context. Proceedings from the EDAMBA 2021 conference, 266 – 276. https://doi.org/10.53465/EDAMBA.2021.9788022549301.266-276