Seminal sociological works propose that a high level of social mobility within a society underpins democracy. The salience of this relationship is particularly poignant in contemporary politics. Fewer individuals are upwardly mobile and more downwardly mobile than in previous generations. There is now also a political outlet for dissatisfied voters, anti-system parties. I analyse the European Social Survey with diagonal reference models, which separate origin and destination effects from mobility effects. My findings show that one’s origins, measured by parental educational attainment, are an important predictor of anti-system right support. Mobile individuals with lower educated parents are more likely to vote for the anti-system right tha...
Using pooled European Social Survey data (Rounds 4–7, 2008–2014), we investigate the relationship be...
This paper models data for the Netherlands in the 1970s on prestige of male's occupation, occupation...
Previous scholarship suggests that the effect of perceived intergenerational mobility on attitudes r...
The political economic transformation of developed countries over the past half Century has resulted...
High intergenerational social mobility is by scholars depicted as something good. However, high inte...
Recent evidence suggests that popular disaffection with liberal-democratic norms and institutions ha...
To explain political divisions within British society, the current scholarship highlights the import...
We study whether and how intergenerational social mobility affects political distrust. Mobile indivi...
In response to arguments that the ‘social mobility problem’ has been overstated and that social mobi...
We study whether and how intergenerational social mobility affects political distrust. Mobile indivi...
The literature on preferences for redistribution has paid little attention to the effect of social m...
The paper uses 18 waves of BHPS data to provide evidence of the roles of both own social status and ...
Social mobility is now a matter of greater political concern in Britain than at any time previously....
You are less likely to vote if your parents didn’t go to the polls. But new research by Hannu Lahtin...
Defence date: 27 February 2014Examining Board: Professor Fabrizio Bernardi, European University Inst...
Using pooled European Social Survey data (Rounds 4–7, 2008–2014), we investigate the relationship be...
This paper models data for the Netherlands in the 1970s on prestige of male's occupation, occupation...
Previous scholarship suggests that the effect of perceived intergenerational mobility on attitudes r...
The political economic transformation of developed countries over the past half Century has resulted...
High intergenerational social mobility is by scholars depicted as something good. However, high inte...
Recent evidence suggests that popular disaffection with liberal-democratic norms and institutions ha...
To explain political divisions within British society, the current scholarship highlights the import...
We study whether and how intergenerational social mobility affects political distrust. Mobile indivi...
In response to arguments that the ‘social mobility problem’ has been overstated and that social mobi...
We study whether and how intergenerational social mobility affects political distrust. Mobile indivi...
The literature on preferences for redistribution has paid little attention to the effect of social m...
The paper uses 18 waves of BHPS data to provide evidence of the roles of both own social status and ...
Social mobility is now a matter of greater political concern in Britain than at any time previously....
You are less likely to vote if your parents didn’t go to the polls. But new research by Hannu Lahtin...
Defence date: 27 February 2014Examining Board: Professor Fabrizio Bernardi, European University Inst...
Using pooled European Social Survey data (Rounds 4–7, 2008–2014), we investigate the relationship be...
This paper models data for the Netherlands in the 1970s on prestige of male's occupation, occupation...
Previous scholarship suggests that the effect of perceived intergenerational mobility on attitudes r...