Anywheres, Somewheres, local attachment, and civic participation

Abstract

Brexit is said to have revealed some deep value divides in British society. One purported fault line, memorably and provocatively set out by David Goodhart, lies "between the people who see the world from Anywhere and the people who see it from Somewhere" (Goodhart, 2017, p. 3). In this paper, we use data from a large-scale and nationally representative survey to assess Goodhart's Anywheres-Somewheres thesis.

Left Behind Together and Voting for Populism: Regional Out-Migration, Civic Engagement and the Electoral Success of Populist Radical Right Parties

“…Consequently, high social capital at both the individual and regional levels reduces support for radical right-wing parties. This association is also observed by Chan and Kawalerowicz (2022), who show for the UK that individuals who support the Remain campaign have participated more actively in civic organizations compared to Leave supporters. Further evidence is provided by Bolet (2021), who has also found that a decline in sociocultural centers is associated with support for the radical right.…”

“…However, individuals sort themselves into politically compatible regions according to their political attitudes if this is not the case (Pickard et al 2022). In contrast, it has been particularly individuals who are locally rooted and live in the region where they were born who have voted in favor of leaving the EU (Chan and Kawalerowicz 2022;Lee et al 2018). Similarly, in the French presidential election runoff, those who have lived in the community for at least 10 years are more likely to have voted for populist radical right candidate Marine Le Pen (Rassemblement National) (Patana 2022).…”

An analysis of the accuracy of retrospective birth location recall using sibling data

“…the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, the UK Biobank (UKB) and Understanding Society, the German Socio-Economic Panel, the Dutch Lifelines cohort and the Generation Scotland cohort). These location data have in turn been used in a wide range of empirical applications, such as those studying geographic mobility 1 , 2 , geographic stratification and spatial correlation of genetic variation 3 – 8 , assortative mating and social homogamy 9 , 10 , but they have also been used to capture regional differences in infrastructure, health or economic circumstances, such as the staggered roll-out of policy 11 . Similarly, they have allowed researchers to include area of birth fixed effects to account for systematic differences between geographical areas 12 , 13 , and to merge in external information on (area-level) weather, health or socio-economic information 14 – 21 .…”

Accuracy of retrospective birth location data – An analysis based on siblings

“…For example, many datasets include individuals' residential location at birth or in early childhood, recollected by survey participants in adulthood or older age (e.g., the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, the UK Biobank and Understanding Society, the German Socio-Economic Panel, the Dutch Lifelines cohort, and the Scottish Generation Scotland). These location data have in turn been used in a wide range of empirical applications, such as those studying geographic mobility 1,2 , geographic stratification and spatial correlation of genetic variation [3][4][5][6][7][8] , assortative mating and social homogamy 9,10 , but they have also been used to capture regional differences in infrastructure, health or economic circumstances, such as the staggered roll-out of policy 11 . Similarly, they have allowed researchers to include area of birth fixed effects to account for systematic differences between geographical areas 12,13 , and to merge in external information on (area-level) weather, health or socio-economic information [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] .…”