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Replication Data for: How the Geographic Clustering of Young and Highly Educated Voters Undermines Redistributive Politics

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Title Replication Data for: How the Geographic Clustering of Young and Highly Educated Voters Undermines Redistributive Politics
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MQ5WES
 
Creator Wiedemann, Andreas
O'Grady, Tom
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description We analyze support for the welfare state across time and space in Great Britain. Using multilevel regression and post-stratification with historical data and an original survey, we show that a virtually identical majority of people supported those policies in the mid-1990s and in 2020, but patterns of support were very different. Young and highly-educated people are now the strongest supporters, as are the youngest and most highly-educated geographic areas, mirroring divides over 'second-dimension' issues like Brexit. However, young and highly-educated voters are clustered in a small number of places, with the Labour party struggling to win moderately-educated and moderately-young areas. As a result, the Left's problem in majoritarian systems is not the rise of second-dimension politics per se, but rather how its supporters are distributed spatially along that dimension. A majority of voters in favor of welfare and redistribution no longer translates as easily into winning a majority of places in support.
 
Subject Social Sciences
political geography
redistribution
education
 
Date 2023-10-06
 
Contributor Wiedemann, Andreas