Changing classes, changing preferences : how social class mobility affects economic preferences
Ares, Macarena (University of Zurich. Institute for Political Science)

Date:	2020
Abstract:	While many studies have identified an association between social class andeconomic preferences, we know little about the implications of changes inclass location for these preferences. This article assesses how social class andintra-generational class mobility affect economic preferences drawing on lon-gitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey. In doing so, the art-icle adopts a post-industrial perspective that considers horizontal and verticalclass divisions. Even when time-invariant characteristics of individuals are keptconstant (through fixed-effects estimation), it is found that both vertical andhorizontal class location explain economic preferences. Thus, these estima-tions suggest that social class moulds preferences, even when accounting forfactors that can lead to selection into classes. Moreover, people who changeclasses hold different economic preferences than their peers in the class oforigin, but do not completely assimilate into their class of destination. Thisimplies that growing intra-generational class mobility could undermine theclass basis of political conflict.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió sotmesa a revisió
Subject:	Social class ; Class mobility ; Economic preferences ; Public opinion ; Panel data ; United-States ; Support ; Europe ; Occupations ; Britain ; Values ; Policy ; Labor ; Work
Published in:	West European Politics, Vol. 43 Núm. 6 (2020) , ISSN 1743-9655

DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2019.1644575

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