Something ‘Old’, Something ‘New’? The UK Space of Political Attitudes After the Brexit Referendum

Lindell, Johan; Ibrahim, Joseph

doi:10.1177/1360780420965982

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“…), but a number of authors have shown that a very similar homology actually pertains to the relationship between the social space and the space of political position-taking in various national contexts (see e.g. Harrits et al 2010;De Keere 2018;Jarness et al 2019;Lindell and Ibrahim 2021). These contributions demonstrate that a two-dimensional social space corresponds systematically to twodimensional political spaces, comprising both the "old" politics of life chances and the "new" politics of life choices.…”

Section: Class Voting and Culturementioning

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Intersections of class, lifestyle and politics. New observations from Norway

Flemmen

Jarness²,

Rosenlund

2022

Berlin J Soziol

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Although social class was once central to political sociology, it has become increasingly less so; many analysts now believe that one’s class position is less important in determining political attitudes and political party preferences. Simultaneously, more attention has been paid to what might be called the culturalization of politics, as epitomized by the US culture wars and stereotypes like the “latte-drinking liberal.” Here, political attitudes are regarded as primarily structured by people’s lifestyles and broader way of life. But do political preferences have to be explained by either relations of sociomaterial conditions (e.g. class) or cultural orientations (e.g. status and lifestyles)? In this article, we argue in favor of an approach that aims to reconcile these factors, allowing for the empirical mapping of whether and how they intersect in shaping political party preferences. We investigate this by using detailed Norwegian survey data to measure the extent to which intraclass heterogeneity in political party choices can be accounted for by the interaction between class and lifestyle. We employ a novel combination of Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Chi-Squared Automatic Interaction Detection (CHAID). In drawing on constructed models of the social space and the space of lifestyles, we show that there are important correspondences between these spaces and that their interaction may help account for party choices. The results highlight the need for a more complex account than that suggested in recent works of cultural stratification research.

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Section: Class Voting and Culturementioning

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Intersections of class, lifestyle and politics. New observations from Norway

Flemmen

Jarness²,

Rosenlund

2022

Berlin J Soziol

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Charting fields and spaces quantitatively: from multiple correspondence analysis to categorical principal components analysis

Atkinson

2023

Qual Quant

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Multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) has started to gain popularity within sociology as a method of mapping ‘fields’ and ‘social spaces’ in the style of Pierre Bourdieu, its capacity to document multidimensional geometric relationships within data being a snug fit for the relational mode of thought he championed. There is a risk, however, of over-relying on MCA when the data suggest alternative methods and, as a result, drawing unsound conclusions. As a case in point, I take a recent analysis of political attitudes in the UK using MCA that drew bold inferences about the relationship with social class and reanalyse the same data with categorical principal components analysis (CatPCA). The results suggest the opposite conclusion to what was originally argued. I thus urge greater methodological flexibility and openness among those wishing to chart fields and social spaces and, more specifically, I make a case for CatPCA as a tool of geometric data analysis.

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Two worlds, one nation? Comparing the political spaces of Flanders and Francophone Belgium

Delespaul,

Meeusen,

Abts

et al. 2024

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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The transformation of the Belgian party system has unfolded asymmetrically: while conservative and far-right parties have thrived in Flanders, the populist right vote has not (yet) been mobilized in Francophone Belgium. Focusing on the demand side of electoral politics, this article explores whether these disparities on the supply side mirror distinct political dimensions and cleavages in both regions. By using an innovative methodology of (class-specific) multiple correspondence analysis, we find that the Flemish and the Francophone political space are largely alike – both in terms of the composition of their political dimensions as in their cleavage structure. However, we also find that Francophones adhere to a distinctive welfare consensus, which prevents working-class embourgeoisement and likely moderates the electoral fortunes of the far right. Overall, our results challenge the common stereotypes of a ‘conservative Flanders’ and a ‘progressive Wallonia’.

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Something ‘Old’, Something ‘New’? The UK Space of Political Attitudes After the Brexit Referendum

Cited by 6 publications

References 30 publications

Intersections of class, lifestyle and politics. New observations from Norway

Intersections of class, lifestyle and politics. New observations from Norway

Charting fields and spaces quantitatively: from multiple correspondence analysis to categorical principal components analysis

Two worlds, one nation? Comparing the political spaces of Flanders and Francophone Belgium

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