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24 - How Social Class Influences Political Choices

from Part III - Contemporary Challenges to Democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2022

By
Geoffrey Evans  and
Aleksei Opacic
Edited by
Danny Osborne  and
Chris G. Sibley
Danny Osborne
Affiliation:
University of Auckland
Chris G. Sibley
Affiliation:
University of Auckland
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Summary

This chapter examines research from political science, sociology, and psychology to understand how and why class position is associated with differences in political attitudes and choices. After reviewing influential definitions of social class, we examine research on explanations of class differences in political behaviour. These include class differences in identity, values and self-interest, authoritarianism, and control. We then review explanations for changes in political choices between classes over time, focusing on supply-side versus demand-side interpretations of declining levels of class voting in Western democracies, and emphasising the effects of party programmatic convergence on the political relevance of class-based values. Finally we assess recent interpretations of the rise of working-class support for the radical right political support, pointing to the limitations of status threat accounts, and noting that such political choices are more powerfully associated with educational attainment than with class position. We consider whether this suggests a reconfiguration of electoral behaviour from a class-based to an educational divide.

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ClassStatusSelf-interestAuthoritarianismIdentitySupply-side politicsRadical right
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The Cambridge Handbook of Political Psychology , pp. 382 - 398
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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