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Diffusing Political Concerns: How Unemployment Information Passed between Social Ties Influences Danish Voters
- Source :
- Journal of Politics, Journal of Politics, 2022, 84 (1), pp.383-404. ⟨10.1086/714925⟩, Alt, J E, Jensen, A, Larreguy, H, Lassen, D D & Marshall, J 2021, ' Diffusing political concerns : How unemployment information passed between social ties influences Danish voters ', Journal of Politics, vol. 84 . https://doi.org/10.1086/714925
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- University of Chicago Press, 2022.
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Abstract
- National audience; While social pressure is widely believed to influence voters, evidence that information passed between social ties affects beliefs, policy preferences, and voting behavior is limited. We investigate whether information about unemployment shocks diffuses through networks of strong and mostly weak social ties and influences voters in Denmark. We link surveys with population-level administrative data that log unemployment shocks afflicting respondents’ familial, vocational, and educational networks. Our results show that the share of second-degree social ties—individuals that voters learn about indirectly—that became unemployed within the last year increases a voter’s perception of national unemployment, self-assessed risk of becoming unemployed, support for unemployment insurance, and voting for left-wing political parties. Voters’ beliefs about national aggregates respond to all shocks similarly, whereas subjective perceptions and preferences respond primarily to unemployment shocks afflicting second-degree ties in similar vocations. This suggests that information diffusion through social ties principally affects political preferences via egotropic—rather than sociotropic—motives.
- Subjects :
- social networks
Beliefs
Sociology and Political Science
voting behavior
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Social pressure
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
Faculty of Social Sciences
Social networks
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information
Danish
Politics
Interpersonal ties
Unemployment
Information
Political economy
Political science
language
beliefs
Voting behavior
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14682508 and 00223816
- Volume :
- 84
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of Politics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fbb9443b403b2a0590ce6fc778690bbe