20.500.12556/DiRROS-25397 Authoritarian and populist challenges to democracy correspond to a lack of economic, social, and cultural capitals We explore attitudes toward democracy in relation to social divisions by focusing on the European Union member states and the corresponding EU political field. Positioning in the European political field is addressed through the theory of social fields as provided by Bourdieu and further conceptualized by Fligstein and McAdam. Drawing on the data obtained from the European Social Survey, we conducted a principal component analysis of the attitudes toward democracy and a correspondence analysis between these attitudes and social, cultural, and economic capitals. We demonstrate that attitudes toward challenging the existing representative democratic order can be seen in terms of two distinct dimensions: authoritarianism and populism. The presence of both corresponds to the lack of one’s possession of economic, social, and cultural capitals and the related political habitus. Those who lack these forms of capital are more prone to support strong authoritarian leaders and are also more likely to endorse conspiracy theories. We can relate this to the problems of exclusion and deprivation related to the lack of political habitus required for effective agency in the political field. democracy authoritarianism populism conspiracy theories political field habitus social capital cultural capital economic capital correspondence analysis demokracija avtoritarnost populizem teorija zarote politično področje habitus družbeni kapital kulturni kapital ekonomski kapital analiza korespondence true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2026-01-19 14:51:27 2026-01-19 14:51:28 2026-01-20 04:06:21 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 Nasl. z nasl. zaslona; Opis vira z dne 24. 8. 2023; str. 1-12 iss. 8 Vol. 13 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2023-08-04 321.7 2075-4698 10.3390/soc13080181 162208259 162208259.pdf 162208259.pdf 1 8279998F17E2B2219E5A42443B433A3C 90c0ab3a2d10d530530de1db81454ef45e052639d4cc16aa7454e9370edee8d5 19b3c952-f53e-11f0-a15d-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=38455 Inštitut za razvojne in strateške analize 0 0 0