The Great Recession and new class voting in Iceland
Conventional wisdom suggests that occupational class plays a limited role in explaining vote choice in Iceland. In this paper, we argue that the death of class in Icelandic politics may be premature and that it still plays a role in structuring political preferences and party choice. While the impor...
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fticelandunivojs:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/2860 2023-08-20T04:07:21+02:00 The Great Recession and new class voting in Iceland Helgason, Agnar Freyr 2018-12-13 application/pdf https://ojs.hi.is/index.php/irpa/article/view/a.2018.14.3.1 eng eng Stjórnsýslustofnun https://ojs.hi.is/index.php/irpa/article/view/a.2018.14.3.1/pdf https://ojs.hi.is/index.php/irpa/article/view/a.2018.14.3.1 Copyright (c) 2018 Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration; Vol. 14 No. 3 (2018): Autumn publication; 159-182 Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla; Bnd. 14 Nr. 3 (2018): Hausthefti; 159-182 1670-679X 1670-6803 Great Recession political behavior class voting vote choice info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2018 fticelandunivojs 2023-08-01T12:28:59Z Conventional wisdom suggests that occupational class plays a limited role in explaining vote choice in Iceland. In this paper, we argue that the death of class in Icelandic politics may be premature and that it still plays a role in structuring political preferences and party choice. While the importance of the traditional class cleavage may have declined to the point of irrelevance, we suggest that there is a new type of class voting in Iceland, containing both a vertical and a horizontal component. Furthermore, we argue that the Great Recession played a critical role in increasing the strength of class voting around this new class schema, both because of the conflict around economic issues it generated, but also because of its facilitation of the formation and success of new parties. We test our main hypotheses using multinomial logistic regression on data from the Icelandic National Election Study from 1999 to 2016 and apply a modified measure of cleavage strength, which we refer to as “Full Kappa”. Our results suggest that class voting is alive and well in Iceland and that its strength has increased following the Great Recession. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland University of Iceland: Peer Reviewed Journals |
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Conventional wisdom suggests that occupational class plays a limited role in explaining vote choice in Iceland. In this paper, we argue that the death of class in Icelandic politics may be premature and that it still plays a role in structuring political preferences and party choice. While the importance of the traditional class cleavage may have declined to the point of irrelevance, we suggest that there is a new type of class voting in Iceland, containing both a vertical and a horizontal component. Furthermore, we argue that the Great Recession played a critical role in increasing the strength of class voting around this new class schema, both because of the conflict around economic issues it generated, but also because of its facilitation of the formation and success of new parties. We test our main hypotheses using multinomial logistic regression on data from the Icelandic National Election Study from 1999 to 2016 and apply a modified measure of cleavage strength, which we refer to as “Full Kappa”. Our results suggest that class voting is alive and well in Iceland and that its strength has increased following the Great Recession. |
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The Great Recession and new class voting in Iceland |
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Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration; Vol. 14 No. 3 (2018): Autumn publication; 159-182 Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla; Bnd. 14 Nr. 3 (2018): Hausthefti; 159-182 1670-679X 1670-6803 |
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