Explaining the Relationship Between Class Position and Political Preferences: A Long-Term Panel Analysis of Intra-Generational Class Mobility.

Past findings on the connection between class position and political preferences are overwhelmingly derived from cross-sectional studies, which provided a limited basis for inferring causality. This study uses long-term panel data on thousands of British respondents to measure the impact of intra-ge...

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Publicado en:British Journal of Political Science Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 958 - 968
Autores principales: Langsæther, Peter Egge, Evans, Geoffrey, O'Grady, Tom
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Apr2022
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          Langsæther, Peter Egge
          Evans, Geoffrey
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          Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway
          Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK
          Department of Political Science, University College London, UK
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        Political affiliation
        Cross-sectional method
        Class differences
        Political socialization
        Panel analysis
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          Political affiliation
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          Class differences
          Political socialization
          Political Organizations
          Panel analysis
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        class mobility
        economic values
        identity
        party choice
        political socialization
        self-interest
        social conservatism
        class mobility
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        identity
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      ab: Past findings on the connection between class position and political preferences are overwhelmingly derived from cross-sectional studies, which provided a limited basis for inferring causality. This study uses long-term panel data on thousands of British respondents to measure the impact of intra-generational class mobility across a range of political identities and preferences. Upward class mobility leads to small increases in economic conservatism, but party choice, class identity and attitudes to non-economic issues do not change. This updating of economic values is much smaller than cross-sectional differences between classes. These results are consistent with the short-run effects of class mobility operating primarily through a limited economic self-interest mechanism. Beliefs that are plausibly unconnected to economics are unaffected. The overall association between class and a range of identities, opinions and preferences is therefore more likely to be caused by early life experiences and longer-term socialization than by the immediate material interests associated with jobs.
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