Extreme Pessimists? Expected Socioeconomic Downward Mobility and the Political Attitudes of Young Adults
| Autor: | Elena Cristina Mitrea, Julia Warmuth, Monika Mühlböck |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Sociology and Political Science
media_common.quotation_subject Pessimism Standard of living European Politics Intergenerational 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration medicine 050207 economics Socioeconomic status media_common 05 social sciences Political attitudes Socioeconomic mobility Social mobility 0506 political science Scale (social sciences) 8. Economic growth Anxiety Demographic economics Ideology medicine.symptom Psychology Left–right self-placement |
| Zdroj: | Political Behavior. 43:785-811 |
| ISSN: | 1573-6687 0190-9320 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11109-020-09593-7 |
| Popis: | In recent decades, and especially since the economic crisis, young people have been finding it more difficult to maintain or exceed the living standards of their parents. As a result, they increasingly expect socioeconomic downward mobility. We study the influence of such a pessimistic view on political attitudes, assuming that it is not so much young adults’ current economic status, but rather their anxiety concerning a prospective socioeconomic decline that affects their ideological positions. Drawing on data from a survey among young adults aged 18–35 in eleven European countries, we explore to what extent expected intergenerational downward mobility correlates with right-wing and left-wing self-placement. We find that young adults who expect to do worse than their parents in the future are indeed more likely to locate themselves at the extreme ends of the ideological scale. |
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