The social bases of political parties: A new measure and survey

G Marks, D Attewell, L Hooghe, J Rovny… - British Journal of …, 2023 - cambridge.org
This article proposes a measure of the social structuration of political parties. The measure
has some distinctive virtues. It assesses the social bases of partisanship from the standpoint …

[HTML][HTML] Age and vote choice: Is there a conservative shift among older voters?

B Geys, TR Heggedal, RJ Sørensen - Electoral Studies, 2022 - Elsevier
Ageing is often believed to induce a movement towards the right of the political spectrum.
Yet, empirical evidence remains inconclusive due to a dearth of longitudinal datasets …

Explaining willingness to pay taxes: The role of income, education, ideology

O Jacques - Journal of European Social Policy, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
While the drivers of preferences about tax progressivity and redistribution are well identified,
the study of willingness to pay taxes remains underdeveloped. This article uses the 2016 …

Contextual welfare chauvinism: Left‐wing governments and immigrant welfare rights in Western Europe

E Harris, F Römer - European Journal of Political Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In Western Europe, as immigration flows increase–or at least become more salient–
and austerity measures place welfare states under pressure, policy reforms that extend or …

The different effects of income and educational level on prosocial behaviour and related ideological variables (Los diversos efectos del nivel de ingresos y nivel …

M Moya, J Alcañiz-Colomer - International Journal of Social …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
El número de estudios en torno al nivel socioeconómico (NSE) en el campo de la psicología
social ha aumentado en los últimos años. Los indicadores más utilizados para medir el NSE …

Educational divides and class coalitions: How mainstream party voters divide and unite over immigration issues

E Harris - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
At the extremes of the transnational cleavage in Western European democracies, voters for
far-right and green parties tend to hold polarising immigration attitudes. Yet, the extent to …

'We Didn't Know What We Were Eating Tomorrow': How Class Origin Shapes the Political Outlook of Members of the Parliament in Britain

V Bortun, A Reeves, S Friedman - Political Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Most work in political science on class and political ideology is focussed on politicians' class
destination rather than class origins. Yet that is inconsistent with evidence in the case of the …

[HTML][HTML] The geography of educational voting: Understanding where individuals with similar qualifications vote differently across Britain

E Simon, W Jennings, G Durrant - Political Geography, 2024 - Elsevier
This study offers a novel account of the geographical variation in the association of
educational attainment with electoral behaviour. It estimates multilevel random-coefficient …

Building a wall around the welfare state, or around the country? Preferences for immigrant welfare inclusion and immigration policy openness in Europe

A Afonso, SM Negash - Journal of European Social Policy, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Existing research on welfare chauvinism, which involves preferences about the inclusion or
exclusion of immigrants in welfare programmes, often overlooks individual preferences …

Far-right parties and the politics of education in Europe

A Giudici, O Gruber, P Schnell… - Journal of Contemporary …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Formal education shapes the distribution of opportunities and cultural profile of European
societies. Political parties, in turn, play a key role in shaping formal education. Focusing …