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PublicationLabour Market Disadvantage, Political Orientations and Voting : How Adverse Labour Market Experiences Translate into Electoral BehaviourHow does labour market disadvantage translate into political behaviour? Bringing together the literatures on political alienation, redistribution preferences and insider-outsider politics, we identify three mechanisms by which labour market disadvantages influence voting behaviour. Disadvantages can increase support for redistribution, reduce internal political efficacy or lower external political efficacy. This translates into support for pro-redistribution parties, vote abstention or support for protest parties. Using the Dutch LISS survey, we observe a twin effect of increased support for redistribution and decreased external efficacy. Mediated through redistributive preferences, we find a positive effect of labour market disadvantage on voting for left parties. Mediated through external efficacy we find a positive effect of labour market disadvantage on protest voting. In contrast, we do not find any effect of labour market disadvantage on internal efficacy. Hence, the observed effect of labour market disadvantage on political abstention is entirely mediated by external efficacy.
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PublicationOff to a Bad Start: Unemployment and Political Interest during the 'Impressionable Years'( 2015-06-02)Marx, PaulType: conference paper
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PublicationOff to a Bad Start: Unemployment and Political Interest during the 'Impressionable Years'( 2015-07-10)Marx, PaulThere is a classical literature in political economy arguing that negative labour market experiences, such as unemployment, might depress political participation and political interest. Political psychologists have found, however, that political participation and interest become habitual and are therefore resilient to change over the life course. In this perspective, labour market experiences should have a stronger effect on participation and interest, if they occur at a young age, that is, during the "impressionable years". In this paper, we use panel data and within-case estimation to analyse the effect of unemployment on political interest, which is a hard test for the hypothesis, because political interest is generally found to be very stable over time. We show that unemployment indeed has a negative effect on political interest among young labour market entrants. This negative effect, we demonstrate, is primarily the result of the important role of political socialisation in the workplace, because the negative effect is particularly strong among young labour market entrants scoring low on extraversion. As extraverts generally have larger social networks, they are less dependent on their political socialisation in the workplace.
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PublicationType: working paperJournal: COMPASS working paper no. 2014-79