Varieties of Populist Attitudes and Their Link to Islamophobia in Switzerland

Schmidt, Franzisca; Eugster, Beatrice; Arlt, Dorothee (2021). Varieties of Populist Attitudes and Their Link to Islamophobia in Switzerland. International journal of public opinion research, 33(4), pp. 873-890. Oxford University Press 10.1093/ijpor/edab023

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The aim of this article is to show whether distinct varieties of populist attitudes emerge within a society, and how they relate to citizens’ Islamophobic attitudes. The study is based on a representative survey conducted in Switzerland in 2019. We used latent class analysis and multinomial regression analyses to identify latent subgroups, yielding five classes of populist attitudes: Direct democracy devotees, individuals with populist tendencies, moderate populists, radical anti-elite populists and radical-universal populists. Compared with the direct democracy devotees class, members of the moderate and the radical-universal populists classes are significantly more likely to hold anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant attitudes and to be politically right-wing, while radical anti-elite populists are not associated with either anti-Muslim attitudes or a right-wing ideology.

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