Automation and Political Realignment: The Impact of 'Losers' Occupational Trajectories on Core Political Values.
The exposure to the automation risk on the labour market is strongly correlated with support for the radical right. In this article, we investigate whether this political realignment is mirrored by a change in individuals' core political values. We test the impact of different occupational trajector...
| Publicado en: | Political Studies Vol. 74; no. 2; pp. 549 - 575 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
May2026
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