In this study, the role of the partner’s self-assessed socio-economic status and political attitudes on populist radical right voting is studied. We made use of a survey among the adult Dutch population (the LISS panel), with information on the self-assessed occupational class, education and political preferences of both partners in cohabiting heterosexual couples. Our results show that, next to the more often found effect of one’s own socio-economic status, the lower the self-assessed occupational class and educational level of the partner, the more likely one is to vote for the PVV, a Dutch populist radical right party. Whereas previous literature has shown that partner’s socio-economic status affects voting behaviour through economic policy preferences, we show the partner’s self-assessed position, for both men and women, is also relevant in explaining behaviour via other political attitudes, such as anti-immigration views. Regardless of one’s own political attitudes, the attitudes of the partner affect one’s likelihood to vote for the populist radical right. With this study, we thus show that including partner characteristics provides further insight into the role of occupation, education, gender, and political attitudes in populist radical right voting, providing evidence of the importance of people’s strong ties in voting behaviour outcomes.

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民粹主义合伙人：合伙人特征对民粹主义激进右翼投票的影响

在本研究中，研究了伴侣自我评估的社会经济地位和政治态度对民粹主义激进右翼投票的作用。我们对荷兰成年人进行了一项调查（LISS 小组），其中包含同居异性伴侣中双方自我评估的职业阶层、教育程度和政治偏好等信息。我们的研究结果表明，除了自身社会经济地位的影响更常见之外，伴侣的自我评估职业阶层和教育水平越低，就越有可能投票给荷兰民粹主义激进分子PVV正确的一方。虽然之前的文献表明，伴侣的社会经济地位通过经济政策偏好影响投票行为，但我们表明，无论男性还是女性，伴侣的自我评估地位也与通过其他政治态度（例如反移民）解释行为相关。意见。无论一个人自己的政治态度如何，伴侣的态度都会影响一个人投票支持民粹主义激进右翼的可能性。因此，通过这项研究，我们表明，纳入伴侣特征可以进一步深入了解职业、教育、性别和政治态度在民粹主义激进右翼投票中的作用，并提供证据证明人们的紧密联系在投票行为结果中的重要性。