Diffusing Political Concerns: How Unemployment Information Passed between Social Ties Influences Danish Voters

Autor:	Horacio Larreguy, David Dreyer Lassen, James E. Alt, Amalie Sofie Jensen, John Marshall
Přispěvatelé:	Harvard University [Cambridge], IT University of Copenhagen, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Columbia University [New York]
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	social networks Beliefs Sociology and Political Science voting behavior media_common.quotation_subject Social pressure [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance Faculty of Social Sciences Social networks language.human_language information Danish Politics Interpersonal ties Unemployment Information Political economy Political science language beliefs Voting behavior media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Politics Journal of Politics, 2022, 84 (1), pp.383-404. ⟨10.1086/714925⟩ Alt, J E, Jensen, A, Larreguy, H, Lassen, D D & Marshall, J 2021, ' Diffusing political concerns : How unemployment information passed between social ties influences Danish voters ', Journal of Politics, vol. 84 . https://doi.org/10.1086/714925
ISSN:	1468-2508 0022-3816
DOI:	10.1086/714925
Popis:	National audience; While social pressure is widely believed to influence voters, evidence that information passed between social ties affects beliefs, policy preferences, and voting behavior is limited. We investigate whether information about unemployment shocks diffuses through networks of strong and mostly weak social ties and influences voters in Denmark. We link surveys with population-level administrative data that log unemployment shocks afflicting respondents’ familial, vocational, and educational networks. Our results show that the share of second-degree social ties—individuals that voters learn about indirectly—that became unemployed within the last year increases a voter’s perception of national unemployment, self-assessed risk of becoming unemployed, support for unemployment insurance, and voting for left-wing political parties. Voters’ beliefs about national aggregates respond to all shocks similarly, whereas subjective perceptions and preferences respond primarily to unemployment shocks afflicting second-degree ties in similar vocations. This suggests that information diffusion through social ties principally affects political preferences via egotropic—rather than sociotropic—motives.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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