Breman, Ype (2020) Rise of the populist vote in Zuidoost Friesland: result of perceived ‘place don’t matter’? Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
The result of the Provinciale Statenverkiezingen 2019 shocked Friesland. The populist Forum voor Democratie party became the second largest party in the provincial government out of nowhere Zuidoost Friesland was one of the regions where this party gathered a lot of votes. This is a region faced decline over the years and will face decline and an ageing population in the future. Therefore, it is marked by the government as a so called ‘anticipeerregio’. The result of the elections were the starting point of this research together with the article of Rodriguez-Pose (2018) because a vote for a populist party can be seen as a factor of a possible ‘place that don’t matter’. Such ‘places that don’t matter’ can be described as “areas left behind, those having witnessed long periods of decline, migration and brain drain, those that have seen better times and remember them with nostalgia, those that have repeatedly told that the future lays elsewhere, have used the ballot box as their weapon to vent their anger against the establishment” (Rodriguez-Pose, 2018, p.200). I was curious to what extent this feeling was the reason of the rising populist vote in Zuidoost Friesland. As a result, no clear connection between such feeling and the vote for a populist party was found.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Ballas, D. |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2020 08:47 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Aug 2020 08:47 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3287 |
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