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The impact of far-right political orientation and cultural values on conservative attitudes toward life and death in Europe: a multilevel approach
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Belief systems are core organizing factors of social attitudes and behaviors, and
their study has highlighted the role of conservatism as a contributing mechanism in
mitigating concerns associated with change avoidance, as well as the reduction of
uncertainty and ambiguity in life. Moreover, these aspects seem to be consistently
used as powerful tools in the political and social discourse of the far-right. Life
and death ethics are an example of issues that deal with the need for stability
and control over personal and social life that people endorsing conservative
values seek to attain. There is a rich line of studies on the individual and social
explanatory factors of political conservatism, but less attention has been dedicated
to moral conservatism as an autonomous and meaningful concept. The current
research follows a multilevel approach to disentangle the individual and contextual
correlates of conservative attitudes toward life and death. Thus, besides looking
at the influence of individual choices related to religion and political orientation,
this study also seeks to analyse the impact of the context, introducing in the
model variables measuring economic performance, social and gender inequality,
religious diversity and the prevalence of materialism and post-materialism values.
Multilevel models using data from the 34 countries that participated in the last
wave of the European Values Study (2017–2020), revealed an association between
far-right orientation and conservative attitudes toward life and death, and that
this relationship is moderated by materialism/post-materialism values, economic
performance, and social inequality. Our findings reinforce the role of democracy
as an environment where freedom of choice and thought are indisputable rights,
cherished by most of the populations, regardless of their political position or their
stance on moral issues.
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cross-cultural studies conservative attitudes far-right orientation ife and death ethics multilevel analysis
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Ramos, A., Pereira, C. R., Soboleva, N., Vaitonyté, M. (2024). The impact of far-right political orientation and cultural values on conservative attitudes toward life and death in Europe: a multilevel approach. Frontiers in Political Science, Vol 5:1159916
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Frontiers Media S.A.