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POLICE OFFICERS LEANING TENDENCIES TO CAST THE VOTE FOR EXTREME-RIGHT PARTIES: THE 2024 PORTUGUESE LEGISLATIVE’ ELECTIONS

Extremism
Interest Groups
Security
Agenda-Setting
Communication
Electoral Behaviour
Survey Research
Voting Behaviour
sara PINA
Universidade Lusófona
sara PINA
Universidade Lusófona
Roots of Populism and Radicalism: Attitudinal and Structural Approaches

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Abstract

This paper analyses the vote of police officers in extreme right parties. Because, insecurity and crime are strongly rooted in the political discourse and agenda setting of the extreme-right that, at the same time, has an intense position to bolster national security forces, it is growing the support of the police for these approaches. We examine this demand- supply interaction and test vote variation by inquiring 282 Portuguese police officers, both from GNR (work in rural areas) and PSP (responsible in urban regions), to know how and why they casted the vote in the two last legislative elections in 2022 and 2024.