In the latest issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social, my article with Jonne Kamphorst in which we propose that educationally homogeneous social networks contribute to the stabilization of political conflict on the cultural dimension. A short thread on the main findings: Link: doi.org/10.1177/0010... - ThreadSky

jonadejong.bsky.social • 68 days ago

In the latest issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social, my article with Jonne Kamphorst in which we propose that educationally homogeneous social networks contribute to the stabilization of political conflict on the cultural dimension. A short thread on the main findings:

Link: https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140241271104

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adamlbrown.bsky.social•68 days ago

another unforeseen impact of prioritising labour mobility over capital mobility is inevitable spatial sorting by educational level and resulting cultural polarisation

jonadejong.bsky.social•68 days ago

Close relationships in the Netherlands show significant homogeneity by education levels. 40-50% of citizens do not report a single close relationship with a different education level, and more than 75% reports a mostly similarly-educated social network

jonadejong.bsky.social•68 days ago

This homogeneity matters for attitudes and voting: citizens with more tertiary-educated ties hold more progressive attitudes on immigration and the EU, are more likely to vote for progressive parties, and are less likely to vote for the far right

jonadejong.bsky.social•68 days ago

Moreover, using difference-in-differences models, we show that an increase in network education levels is predictive of an increase in progressive immigration attitudes and feeling close to progressive parties, and a decrease in feeling close to far right parties.

jonadejong.bsky.social•68 days ago

Taken together, these results show that social closure strengthens and reinforces differences in political attitudes and voting between citizens with and without tertiary education.

jonadejong.bsky.social•68 days ago

We suggest that today, informal social networks have partly supplanted the role of past formal organizations – such as unions and churches – in creating durable social divisions, thereby stabilizing political competition on the universalist-particularist, 'cultural' dimension.

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