Movilidad social y comportamiento electoral

This paper presents the results of a research study on the influence of social mobility on voting behaviour. The author draws on a survey conducted in 1991 (ECBC Survey, Comunidad de Madrid) encompassing the entire Spanish territory. His research shows that experience of social mobility clearly affects - sometimes in an apparently surprising way - the voting behaviour of social actors. Generally speaking, voting behaviour tends to situate itself somewhere between the class of origin and the target class, albeit closer to the latter. Moreover, experience of certain movements generates a certain type of left- or right-wing radicalism, one of the most important types corresponding to the sectors of the new middle classes which spring from the manual worker's class