School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support.
The educational cleavage is restructuring electoral competition in many democracies, yet there has been insufficient attention on how variation in educational content affects this. In order to address this, this article combines English administrative school records with a unique representative pane...
| Publicado en: | West European Politics Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 697 - 726 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2026
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