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The impact of class on political attitudes
Author(s) -
HAYES BERNADETTE C.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1995.tb00630.x
Subject(s) - politics , class (philosophy) , demise , salient , identification (biology) , social class , position (finance) , political science , development economics , economics , law , epistemology , philosophy , botany , finance , biology
. This study examines the impact of class self‐identification and class position on political attitudes in Great Britain, West Germany, Australia and the United States. The results show a basic similarity in the class structure of these four western nations, differences in patterns of class identification, and significant effects of class structure and class identification on political attitudes. Despite recent projections of its demise, for these four countries at least, class identification and class position are an important, albeit secondary, factor in explaining political attitudes. Of these class measures, class self‐identification is the more salient in predicting political attitudes.