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The political consequences of outsider labour market status in the United States : a micro-level study
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Gelepithis, Margarita and Jeannet, Anne-Marie (2018) The political consequences of outsider labour market status in the United States : a micro-level study. Social Policy & Administration, 52 (5). pp. 1019-1042. doi:10.1111/spol.12277 ISSN 0144-5596.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spol.12277
Abstract
This article contributes to recent research that seeks to understand the political consequences of ‘outsider’ labour market status. There is an emerging consensus that labour market outsiders have systematically different policy preferences and display systematically different political behaviour to securely employed ‘insiders’ in Europe. Yet the political consequences of outsider status in the USA are less clear. They may be expected to differ from those that have been documented in the European context, because: (1) the USA is characterized by low employment protection of insiders; and (2) there is evidence that Americans are more reluctant than Europeans to hold governments responsible for personal economic hardship. We therefore use the General Social Survey to examine how outsider labour market status is related to voting behaviour and to social policy preferences in the USA. We find that the concept of ‘labour market outsider’ – as conventionally operationalized – holds little explanatory power in the American context. Disaggregating the outsider category, our results suggest that the political consequences of outsider labour market status may be contingent on individual beliefs about government responsibility.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Social Policy & Administration | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0144-5596 | ||||||||
Official Date: | September 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 52 | ||||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1019-1042 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/spol.12277 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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