Do Not Make Them Mad: Social Pacts and Manual Workers’ Support for Radical Right-wing Parties

• In Event: Populism and Support for Right-Wing Parties

Brief Overview

While social pact agreements discourage manual workers from voting for challenger radical right-wing parties, failure to complete a social pact and the government unilaterally enacting legislation intensifies manual worker support for these parties.

Authors

• Kyung Joon Han, The University of Tennessee

• Eric Graig Castater, Kennesaw State University