Regional resentment in the Netherlands: A rural or peripheral phenomenon?
研究荷兰公民的区域怨恨感,发现这种情绪在边缘和贫困地区尤为强烈,且与地方认同感相关,对理解区域不平等和社会分裂有参考价值。
We study ‘regional resentment’, or the feeling that one’s region is not treated rightly by citizens and elites from other regions, in a European context. Is this mainly a rural or a peripheral phenomenon, or do these two contextual characteristics matter equally? We present three survey items to measure regional resentment, field it among a geocoded representative sample of 8000 Dutch citizens stratified by region and urbanity, and show that they create a valid scale. Regional resentment differs between urban and rural areas, but is especially strong in peripheral and deprived areas, and amongst citizens with strong place-based identities.