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As immigration issues waned in salience during the COVID-19 pandemic, populist radical right (PRR) parties repositionedthemselves by politicizing various pandemic policies. In light of this changing political landscape, scholars have analyzed whatfactors are associated with PRR voting. Yet, most studies focus on small sets of covariates that could easily ignore other keydeterminants. To address this limitation, we use MI-LASSO logistic regression, which is a more inductive data-drivenapproach that can incorporate a huge number of covariates. Our research analyzes the key determinants of voting for thePeople’s Party of Canada—a PRR party that rose rapidly during the pandemic. Using the 2021 Canadian Election Studydataset (N= 14,841), we confirm that PRR voters in the pandemic were both protest and policy-oriented voters. Theywere protest voters since anti-establishment attitudes consistently correlate with their vote choice. On the other hand,PRR voters’policy concern was about pandemic policies rather than immigration, as nativist attitudes never emerge as keydeterminants. Additionally, we uncover that the ideological placement of the mainstream right party and the defense of hatespeech are strong correlates, while conventional variables like sociodemographics are not. Thesefindings enrich ourunderstanding of PRR voting during the pandemic
Author(s): Chan KM, Stephenson LB
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Research & Politics
Year: 2024
Volume: 11
Issue: 1
Online publication date: 24/01/2024
Acceptance date: 22/12/2023
Date deposited: 05/02/2024
ISSN (print): 2053-1680
ISSN (electronic): 2053-1680
Publisher: Sage
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/20531680241228358
DOI: 10.1177/205316802412283
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