Frozen or malleable? Political ideology in the face of job loss and unemployment

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• dc.contributor.author Wiertz, Dingeman
• dc.contributor.author Rodon i Casarramona, Antoni
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-04-08T07:30:31Z
• dc.date.available 2024-04-08T07:30:31Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.
• dc.description.abstract To what degree do people adjust their political ideology in response to job loss? To answer this question, we draw on Dutch panel data over the period 2007–2016, paying special attention to the potential moderating role of various personal circumstances. We find that, on average, job loss triggers a leftward ideological response. Although small in size, this shock effect persists when people remain unemployed or find new employment, yet in the longer run it wears off. Furthermore, we find that job loss prompts a bigger shift to the left when people are simultaneously confronted with a major drop in household income, when they have fewer financial resources to serve as a buffer, and when they are more pessimistic about the economy. While we also observe many people who revise their ideology to the right during our study window, these rightward shifts do not seem driven by job loss experiences.
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• dc.identifier.citation Wiertz D, Rodon T. Frozen or malleable? Political ideology in the face of job loss and unemployment. Socioecon Rev. 2021 Jan;19(1):307-31. DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwz024
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwz024
• dc.identifier.issn 1475-1461
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59681
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Oxford University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Socio-economic review. 2021 Jan;19(1):307-31
• dc.rights © Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Socio-Economic Review following peer review. The version of record Wiertz D, Rodon T. Frozen or malleable? Political ideology in the face of job loss and unemployment. Socio-economic review. 2021 Jan;19(1):307-31. is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwz024
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• dc.subject.keyword Unemployment
• dc.subject.keyword Ideology
• dc.subject.keyword Europe
• dc.subject.keyword Political sociology
• dc.subject.keyword Political economy
• dc.title Frozen or malleable? Political ideology in the face of job loss and unemployment
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