Ethnic Heterogeneity in the Social Bases of Voting at the 2010 British General Election

Heath, Anthony; Fisher, Stephen; Sanders, David; Sobolewska, Maria

doi:10.1080/17457289.2011.562611

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“…It should be pointed out, however, that while the Deary et al (2008) article found that IQ was an important predictor of voting intentions, other variables such as social class also played a role. This finding is in line with a good deal of research which suggests that factors such as vested interest (Young, Borgida, Sullivan, & Aldrich, 1987) and ethnicity (Heath, Fisher, Sanders, & Sobolewska, 2011) have an important influence on voting behaviour. Therefore, the absence of any relationship between voting intention and both RWA and SDO (Altemeyer, 1998) may not imply that egalitarian leftists are paradoxically just as likely as non-egalitarian rightists to be high SDO scorers, but rather that ideology fails to account for significant variance in an individual's voting intentions.…”

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“…In examining the impact of the materialist‐postmaterialist variable, we are cognisant of the existence of studies which recognize the value of other variables in potentially structuring political action preferences. For instance, evidence suggests that age completed education (Whiteley ), educational qualifications (Tenn ), gender (Norris and Inglehart ; Furlong and Cartmel ), social class (Pattie, Seyd and Whiteley ) and ethnicity (Heath, Fisher, Sanders and Sobolewska ) are all important predictors. We examine each of these socio‐demographic factors alongside the materialist‐postmaterialist variable to assess the relative explanatory weight of each.…”

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Postmaterialism and young people's political participation in a time of austerity

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2017

British Journal of Sociology

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Recent trends suggest that young people in Britain are refraining from engaging in formal political processes. At the same time, they are increasingly expressing support for, and turning toward, a new and diverse range of non-institutionalized forms of political action in order to actualize their interests. Using Inglehart's ideas on postmaterialism, we consider whether this apparent rejection of mainstream politics in favour of less conventional - and sometimes radical - forms of political action is changing over time in Britain, reflecting fluctuating economic conditions witnessed over the last two decades. We do this by comparing results from surveys of British 18 year olds conducted in 2002 during an era of relative global prosperity, and then in 2011 at the height of the current global crisis. The findings suggest that British young postmaterialists are considerably more likely than materialists to participate in and support both institutionalized and non-institutionalized forms of political action.

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“…In particular, there is a significant body of research indicating that key social predictors have an enduring and critical bearing on political participation and engagement in Britain, and across the age ranges. Thus, age-completed education (Whiteley 2012) and educational qualifications (Tenn 2007), gender (Furlong and Cartmel 2012), social class (Pattie, Seyd, and Whiteley 2004;Holmes and Manning 2013) and ethnicity (Heath et al 2011) are all considered to impact on voting. However, there is relatively little large-scale empirical research focusing on the diversity of young people's political perspectives and behaviour (for exceptions, see Tonge, Mycock, and Jeffery 2012;Henn and Foard 2014).…”

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Cajoling or coercing: would electoral engineering resolve the young citizen–state disconnect?

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Oldfield

2016

Journal of Youth Studies

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The relationships between citizens and their states are undergoing significant stresses across advanced liberal democracies. In Britain, this disconnect is particularly evident amongst young citizens. This article considers whether different electoral engineering methods -designed either to cajole or compel youth to votemight arrest the decline in their political engagement. Data collected in 2011 from a national survey of 1025 British 18-yearolds and from focus groups involving 86 young people reveal that many young people claim that they would be more likely to vote in future elections if such electoral reforms were implemented. However, it is questionable whether or not such increased electoral participation would mean that they would feel truly connected to the democratic process. In particular, forcing young people to vote through the introduction of compulsory voting may actually serve to reinforce deepening resentments, rather than engage them in a positive manner. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Ethnic Heterogeneity in the Social Bases of Voting at the 2010 British General Election

Cited by 70 publications

References 21 publications

Revisiting the link between low verbal intelligence and ideology

Revisiting the link between low verbal intelligence and ideology

Postmaterialism and young people's political participation in a time of austerity

Cajoling or coercing: would electoral engineering resolve the young citizen–state disconnect?

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