Policy Hostility, Group Hostility and Voting for Radical Right: Micro-Level Evidence from Slovakia

Are radical right voters more xenophobic than voters of other parties? Although conventional wisdom indicates a positive relationship, evidence linking xenophobia and voting for extremist parties is surprisingly weak. Using an original survey in Slovakia, with an embedded survey experiment, the results indicate that indignation over governmental transfers towards a politically backed minority -- and not group hostility -- is the single strongest predictor of radical right voting.