🟡 🇸🇪 **<font color="yellow">Spirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right</font>**

"_Drawing parallels to the UK, where pub closures led to increased support for UKIP, this study investigates similar trends observed in Sweden. Utilizing a novel dataset of over 50,000 alcohol-serving permits and electoral data from 2002 to 2018, the study finds that a reduction in permits is associated with a 3.7% increase in support for the Sweden Democrats (SD)._"

Isaksson, Z. (2024) 'Spirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right,' Electoral Studies, 91, p. 102850. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2024.102850.

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