Why are university-educated ethnic majority men less likely to support right-wing populism (RWP) than those without university education? To investigate this under-researched question, we conducted an exploratory study using semistructured interviews and thematic analysis with white Australian men from different socioeconomic backgrounds. While some with university education supported RWP, their views aligned with a moderate version of the ideology. Student/graduate supporters of RWP were opposed to hiring practices designed to support gender and ethnic equity. Students/graduates who experienced contact with Others were generally more positive about diversity, but this was not always the case for non-university participants. While students/graduates with RWP leanings tended to see university as a politically biased institution, concerns about political correctness were widespread across the sample. Significantly, numerous students/graduates experienced university education as promoting a pluralist outlook, and this outlook appears fundamentally incompatible with the monist tendencies of RWP ideology. However, findings also suggest that university education is not the only route to a pluralist outlook, nor does it always lead to a rejection of RWP. Hence, developing a pluralist outlook may be more important than university education in reducing the appeal of RWP. The implications of these exploratory findings for future research are discussed.

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探讨大学教育在减少右翼民粹主义吸引力方面的作用

为什么受过大学教育的少数族裔男性比没有受过大学教育的人更不可能支持右翼民粹主义（RWP）？为了调查这个尚未充分研究的问题，我们对来自不同社会经济背景的澳大利亚白人进行了一项探索性研究，采用半结构化访谈和主题分析。虽然一些受过大学教育的人支持 RWP，但他们的观点与温和版本的意识形态一致。RWP 的学生/研究生支持者反对旨在支持性别和种族平等的招聘做法。经历过与他人接触的学生/毕业生通常对多样性更加积极，但对于非大学参与者来说情况并非总是如此。虽然有 RWP 倾向的学生/毕业生往往将大学视为具有政治偏见的机构，但对政治正确性的担忧在样本中普遍存在。值得注意的是，许多学生/毕业生将大学教育视为宣扬多元主义观点，而这种观点似乎与 RWP 意识形态的一元主义倾向根本不相容。然而，调查结果还表明，大学教育并不是实现多元化观点的唯一途径，也并不总是导致对 RWP 的拒绝。因此，在降低 RWP 的吸引力方面，发展多元化观点可能比大学教育更重要。讨论了这些探索性发现对未来研究的影响。