In the mid-20th c. lower-income and less educated voters largely supported left-wing parties, while wealthier and more educated groups leaned right.

This pattern has fractured.

Broadbent Fellow @pgraefe.bsky.social w/ @mattpolacko.bsky.social & Simon Kiss explore the working-class vote in Canada.

To reverse the trend of the working class moving to the Conservatives, we show that the #NDP should aim to combat alienation and disaffection among working class voters with stronger economic populist appeals and an economic strategy that promises direct material gains for workers

🚨New Publication with @pgraefe.bsky.social & @sjkiss.bsky.social for @broadbent.bsky.social

We examine class voting in #Canada and show how the working class feels politically alienated and disaffected that their interests are not being pursued by politicians

perspectivesjournal.ca/changing-cla...

Happy to share some recent research on the NDP and the working class (with @mattpolacko.bsky.social and @sjkiss.bsky.social) in the latest Perspectives magazine.
perspectivesjournal.ca/changing-cla...

New piece with @pgraefe.bsky.social & @sjkiss.bsky.social for the @ca.theconversation.com asking:

"What Canada’s public sector voting divide could mean for future elections"

Based on our recent publication in the @csa-scs.bsky.social

#polisky #cdnpoli #canlab

theconversation.com/what-canadas...

Will Carney’s public sector job cuts help the NDP get back off the mat? Or does Carney feel public sector workers have nowhere else to go? theconversation.com/what-canadas...

A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Will Carney’s public sector job cuts help the NDP get back off the mat? Or does Carney feel public sector workers have nowhere else to go? theconversation.com/what-canadas...

🚨 New publication 🚨

With @pgraefe.bsky.social & @sjkiss.bsky.social in @csa-scs.bsky.social

Does the public sector vote differently and hold differing political attitudes than the general public?

Available #OpenAccess
#polisky

doi.org/10.1111/cars...

In the mood to overstate the significance of this but it does feel like wealth class has purchased collective achievement as a hobby and impoverished us all for vanity

abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/Livi...

#25CPSA_CHAIRS Jan31 Day 1 Hybrid CHAIRS mtg
@carletonu.bsky.social opened w chairs sharing what they like most of the position! @kariroberts.bsky.social @jonathanmalloy.bsky.social @loraleamichaelis.bsky.social @dietlinds.bsky.social @alanjacobs.bsky.social @jsmatthews99.bsky.social

In today’s Globe and Mail. An insightful op ed by the inimitable Kent Roach.

New year, new article out with @pgraefe.bsky.social & @sjkiss.bsky.social in Social Science Quarterly

We find subjective economic insecurity is associated with voting for the Right in Canada, when interacting with immigration and feminist attitudes

Available #openaccess
doi.org/10.1111/ssqu...

I will never recover from this student email.

If you need a primer on Canada's beneficial ownership registry, and why we need it, this is a good place to start:

Great summary of my class voting research with @sjkiss.bsky.social & @pgraefe.bsky.social in this Globe & Mail editorial www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Nice summary of my recent Electoral Studies article with @sjkiss.bsky.social & @pgraefe.bsky.social in The Conversation. We find that educated voters in Canada tend to increasingly vote for left-leaning parties and richer voters go right. theconversation.com/educated-vot...