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creators_name: Breman, Ype
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creators_email: y.h.breman@student.rug.nl
title: Rise of the populist vote in Zuidoost Friesland: result of perceived ‘place don’t  matter’?
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
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.
date: 2020
pages: 29
thesis_type: bachelor
degree_programme: SGP
tutors_name: Ballas, D.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Economische Geografie
tutors_email: D.Ballas@rug.nl
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keywords_local: Populism
keywords_local: Places that don't matter
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2020-07-29
citation:   Breman, Ype  (2020) Rise of the populist vote in Zuidoost Friesland: result of perceived ‘place don’t matter’?  Bachelor thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3287/1/Bachelorproject%20Ype.pdf