Why Do Pub Closures Boost Radical Right Support?

Working Class European Politics @CPS 4 Stata files 3 datasets Dataverse

This paper argues that local pub closures increase support for UKIP by signaling the decline of community and cultural identity.

Data & Methods

Exploits an original dataset on British community pub closures.
Combines district-level data with UK panel data (2013â€“2016).

Key Findings

Individuals in districts experiencing one additional community pub closure are 4.3 percentage points more likely to support UKIP than other parties.
The effect is larger under conditions of material deprivation.

Significance

Pub closures represent a key mechanism linking local socio-cultural degradation and radical right voting behavior.

Drinking Alone: Local Socio-Cultural Degradation and Radical Right Support--the Case of British Pub Closures was authored by Diane Bolet. It was published in CPS in 2021. Find on Google Scholar 10.1177/0010414021997158