Thread by @macarena_ares

Very happy to share our new article with @VanDitmars on socialization, family origins and class voting published in @BJPolS #polisciresearch #OpenAccess
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Our study shows a legacy of industrial class conflict still affecting voting behavior today.

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Using panel data from 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪 and🇨🇭we find that children of working-class parents are more likely to vote for the left, even when they move to a different social class. The impact of parental class of origin on left-wing support is comparable or even greater than voters’ own class

Part of the current middle-class left-wing support is grounded in their working-class roots. It demonstrates an inter-generational legacy of industrial class conflict.

Importantly, we find that this industrial legacy is in decline, as working-class origins are increasingly less common, and more weakly related to left-wing support.

In strongly realigned contexts, like 🇨🇭, this left-wing legacy is instead found among children with parents in socio-cultural professions. However, the new middle class does not appear to produce such strong left-wing attachment as the industrial working class.

Our study highlights the lasting importance of political socialization in the family class of origin, and how this process depends on the political context.

It also poses an important question for future research: will the new socio-cultural middle class constitute a relevant milieu of lasting left-wing socialization for future generations?