61 Estudios Internacionales 203 (2022)–ISSN 0719-3769 • 61–86 Instituto de Estudios Internacionales–Universidad de Chile Not fond of democracy and politcally discontent individuals: Assessing regime-related determinants of the vote for VOX Individuos polítcamente descontentos con la democracia: evaluación de los determinantes del voto por VOX relacionados con el régimen Lisa Zanot* José Rama** AbstrAct This paper aims to analyze the relationship between the popu- list radical right and support for democracy examining the case of VOX in Spain. The case of VOX is particularly puzzling since it does ft in the defnition of PRRPs but in its discourse, radicalism is much stronger than populism. Moreover, the party presents idiosyncratic features that affect the determinants of its vote. Nationalism is often expressed through allusion to the pre-democratic period in Spain without explicitly adhering to Francoism. The main results of this study are two. First, evalua- Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Institute for Social Sciences at Diego Portales University and an Adjunct Researcher at COES in Santiago, Chile. She holds a joint PhD in Political Science from Diego Portales University (Chile) and in Humanities from Leiden University (the Netherlands). Zanotti acknowledges the support of the Fondo Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico (FONDECYT Proyecto 3210352) and the Centre for Social Confict and Cohesion Studies – COES (ANID/FONDAP/15130009) lisa.zanotti@mail.udp.cl. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5515-3686. Lecturer in the Department of Political Science & International Relations at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). PhD in Political Science from UAM. jose.rama@uam.es . ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3990-1696. Recibido: 25 de septiembre de 2022. Aceptado: 2 de diciembre de 2022. * **