A Registered Report on Place-Based Resentment: Exploring Urban-Rural Tensions in Sweden

Kajsa Hansson, Gissur Ó Erlingsson, Gustav Tinghög · 2025 · Journal of Experimental Political Science

Summary. This Swedish study reveals significant urban-rural tensions despite the country's egalitarian welfare state and equalization policies. Rural respondents showed stronger in-group identification, greater place-based resentment, and more negative stereotypes of urban people than vice versa. However, these tensions did not translate into systematic bias when evaluating political statements from rural versus urban politicians, suggesting regional identity matters for political discourse without creating systematic partisan divides.

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  title   = {A Registered Report on Place-Based Resentment: Exploring Urban-Rural Tensions in Sweden},
  author  = {Kajsa Hansson and Gissur Ó Erlingsson and Gustav Tinghög},
  journal = {Journal of Experimental Political Science},
  year    = {2025},
  doi     = {10.1017/xps.2025.10021},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1017/xps.2025.10021}
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DOI

10.1017/xps.2025.10021

Countries

Sweden

Regions

Europe

Categories

policy, regional-innovation-systems

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2026-04-28