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a. Personality, and particularly the trait agreeableness, predicts voting for populist parties or politicians. (Bakker et al 2016)
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b. There are two routes to Trump support: one via agreeableness, the other via authoritarianism.
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c. Personality, particularly extraversion and openness, predict vote switching. (Bakker, Klemmensen, Norgaard, Schumacher 2016)
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*A causal analysis of the relationship between agreeableness and populist voting using panel data, a conjoint experiment and a psychophysiological study. This work has been presented at the ICA conference in San Diego (2017) and the ISSP conference in Edinburgh (2017).
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Gijs Schumacher & Ingo Zettler (2019). House of Cards or West Wing? Self-reported HEXACO Traits of Danish Politicians. Personality and Individual Differences , 141, 173–181. | |
Rooduijn, Matthijs & Brian Burgoon (2018) The Paradox of Wellbeing: Do Unfavorable Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Contexts Deepen or Dampen Radical Left and Right Voting Among the Less Well-Off? Comparative Political Studies 51(13): 1720-1753. | |
Bert Bakker & Yphtach Lelkes (2018). Selling Ourselves Short? How Abbreviated Measures of Personality Change the Way We Think about Personality and Politics. Journal of Politics, 80, 4. | ![]() |
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Rooduijn, Matthijs, Brian Burgoon, Erika van Elsas & Herman van de Werfhorst (2017) Radical Distinction: Support for Radical Left and Radical Right Parties in Europe. European Union Politics 18(4): 536-559. | |
Bakker, B.N., & De Vreese, C.H. (2016). Personality and European Union attitudes: Relationships across European Union attitude dimensions. European Union Politics 17(1): 25-45. | ![]() |
Bert Bakker, Matthijs Rooduijn, & Gijs Schumacher (2016). The Psychological Roots of Populist Voting: Evidence from the United States, the Netherlands and Germany. European Journal of Political Research, 55, 2. | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Bakker, B.N. (2016). Personality traits, income and economic ideology. Political Psychology. | ![]() |
Bert Bakker, Robert Klemmensen, Asbjørn Nørgaard & Gijs Schumacher (2016). Stay Loyal or Exit the Party? How Openness to Experience and Extraversion Explain Vote Switching. Political Psychology, 37, 3. | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Gijs Schumacher & Matthijs Rooduijn (2013). Sympathy for the 'Devil'? Voting for Populists in the 2006 and 2010 Dutch General Elections. Electoral Studies, 32, 1. | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Bakker, B.N., Hopmann, D.N., & Persson, M. (2015). Personality traits and party identification over time. European Journal of Political Research 54(2), 197-215. |
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