Gradient constraint in voting: The effect of intra-generational social class and income mobility on turnout |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 18, 00014, Finland;2. Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 54, 00014, Finland;1. Department of Pediatrics, The University of Iowa, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA;2. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, Iowa City, IA;3. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR;4. Department of Pathology, The University of Iowa, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA;5. Department of Biostatistics, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, IA;1. Chair of Sociology and Empirical Social Research – Sociology of the Labour Market, Department of Business and Economics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Findelgasse 7/9, D-90402 Nuremberg, Germany;2. Research Department – Panel Study “Labour Market and Social Security”, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA), Regensburger Strasse 104, D-90478 Nuremberg, Germany;1. Economics Department, Sonoma State University, 1801 E. Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, USA;2. Economics Department, University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95211, USA;1. Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Faculty of Socioeconomic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia;2. Department of Political Science, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA |
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| Abstract: | As the connection between an individual’s socioeconomic status and electoral participation originates from the socialization process in childhood and adolescence, inequalities in voting are often argued to be relatively stable throughout the life cycle. However, social mobility during adulthood may mitigate the effects of family background. Using individual-level register-based data, this study examines the extent to which changes in adults’ social class and income between 2000 and 2011 influenced voting propensity in the 2012 Finnish municipal elections. The results show that turnout among socially mobile voters settles between the stable members of their socioeconomic group of origin and destination. Our findings imply that intra-generational social and economic mobility can constrain the socioeconomic gradient in turnout. |
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| Keywords: | Turnout Intra-generational social mobility Social class Income Gradient constraint |
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