Across Europe, legislators are systematically more culturally liberal than citizens on most identity-linked issues; populist parties exploit this misalignment.
— Explains populist gains, policy gridlock on culture/immigration, and legitimacy battles over whether elites or median voters set cultural policy baselines.
Matt Goodwin
2025.08.18
85% relevant
The article contrasts 'ordinary' residents raising national flags with Labour- or Aspire-run councils removing them while leaving Palestinian flags, exemplifying perceived cultural misalignment between local elites and citizens that populist actors exploit.
Bartolomeo Sala
2025.08.17
72% relevant
Eribon’s self-description as a left-leaning Paris intellectual distancing from his working-class roots illustrates a widening cultural and attitudinal gap between educated elites and working-class voters that populists exploit.
Tyler Cowen
2025.08.16
100% relevant
The cited study finds MPs are ~1 SD more culturally liberal than national median voters across issues and countries, with right-wing populists filling the resulting representation gap.
Lorenzo Warby
2025.07.13
80% relevant
The article’s 'Anywheres vs Somewheres' and 'accountable vs unaccountable' class framing maps onto a structural gap between culturally liberal elites and more localist publics; it argues this misalignment bleeds into foreign-policy consensus, weakening support for the rules-based order.
Lionel Page
2025.06.24
85% relevant
The piece cites growing working-class mistrust of elites and argues left coalitions pivoted toward highly educated voters, directly exemplifying the systemic misalignment between legislators/educated elites and median working-class preferences.