Regional resentment in the Netherlands: A rural or peripheral phenomenon?

Sarah de Lange, Wouter van der Brug and Eelco Harteveld

Regional Studies, 2023, vol. 57, issue 3, 403-415

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2022.2084527

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