Ph.D. student, Peter Achterberg as a postdoc, and Dick Houtman as an associate professor of sociology. By means of a re-analysis of the most relevant data source (Nieuwbeerta & Ganzeboom 1996), this paper criticizes the newly grown consensus in political sociology that class voting has declined since World War II. An increase of crosscutting cultural voting, rooted in educational differences, rather than a decline of class voting proves responsible for the decline of the traditional class-party alignments. Moreover, income differences have not become less, but more consequential for voting behavior during this period. It is concluded that the new consensus has been built on quicksand. Class is not dead – it has been buried alive under t...
Studies of the issue disagree about the reasons for—even the existence of—a low level of class votin...
Analyzing data obtained from the literature and our own calculations, significant differences were f...
Item does not contain fulltextClassic studies in political sociology argued that differences in coun...
textabstractBy means of a re-analysis of the most relevant data source – the International Social Mo...
Studies that explain the class voting have often focused on “bottom-up” social factors, but paid lit...
Contains fulltext : 99988.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)To what extent...
Class voting has been one of the most wide-spread and persistent patterns of voting behavior in West...
Contains fulltext : 112060_a.pdf (author's version ) (Open Access) ...
In the light of observations of the decline in class voting, some scholars have suggested that the c...
textabstractThe traditional class approach to politics maintains that the working class 'naturally' ...
To what extent can the decline of class voting in the Netherlands be explained by sociological facto...
Conventional wisdom has long held that class is declining as an influence on voting. More recently, ...
Class identity at the end of the century There has been a long term decline in working class identit...
Most attempts to explain voter turnout in presidential elections focus on either of two general type...
According to the thesis put forward by the sociologist Seymour M. Lipset in his book, Political Man:...
Studies of the issue disagree about the reasons for—even the existence of—a low level of class votin...
Analyzing data obtained from the literature and our own calculations, significant differences were f...
Item does not contain fulltextClassic studies in political sociology argued that differences in coun...
textabstractBy means of a re-analysis of the most relevant data source – the International Social Mo...
Studies that explain the class voting have often focused on “bottom-up” social factors, but paid lit...
Contains fulltext : 99988.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)To what extent...
Class voting has been one of the most wide-spread and persistent patterns of voting behavior in West...
Contains fulltext : 112060_a.pdf (author's version ) (Open Access) ...
In the light of observations of the decline in class voting, some scholars have suggested that the c...
textabstractThe traditional class approach to politics maintains that the working class 'naturally' ...
To what extent can the decline of class voting in the Netherlands be explained by sociological facto...
Conventional wisdom has long held that class is declining as an influence on voting. More recently, ...
Class identity at the end of the century There has been a long term decline in working class identit...
Most attempts to explain voter turnout in presidential elections focus on either of two general type...
According to the thesis put forward by the sociologist Seymour M. Lipset in his book, Political Man:...
Studies of the issue disagree about the reasons for—even the existence of—a low level of class votin...
Analyzing data obtained from the literature and our own calculations, significant differences were f...
Item does not contain fulltextClassic studies in political sociology argued that differences in coun...