Kajsa Hansson

Research by @hajsakansson.bsky.social et al, investigating urban-rural tensions in Sweden, finds
•rural respondents exhibit stronger in-group identity and stronger place-based resentment than urban ones;
•this difference is not reflected in political behaviour:

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In short: Sweden shows a clear asymmetry in place-based resentment, with rural respondents expressing more resentment toward urbanites than vice versa, but this does not make them more negative to political statements made by urban politicians.

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Main finding: Despite these tensions, we find no place-based bias. Rural respondents were not less receptive toward urban politicians’ political statements, and urban respondents were not less receptive toward rural politicians’ statements.

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Descriptively, we find clear divides: Rural respondents showed stronger in-group identity, higher resentment, and more negative stereotypes of urbanites, compared to urban respondents.

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We ran a pre-registered online survey experiment (n = 2,051), experimentally varying whether statements came from rural or urban politicians.

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New paper out! We examine urban–rural tensions in Sweden, testing whether place identities and resentment shape how people evaluate political statements, with Gustav Tinghög and Gissur Erlingsson.

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Great study on the urban-rural divide in Sweden. Clear attitude- and identity-based polarization, but no systematic bias towards out-group political candidates.

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SÅ GRYM!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Big congrats!! So well deserved! 🙌

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