No. of Recommendations: 4
"...“Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right”, by Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano and Thomas Piketty (working paper, 2021)"Here's a link to (the .pdf download for) the whole 150 pp paper:
wid.world - WorldInequalityLab PoliticalCleavages WesternDemocraciesWhile mungo has identified the authors' primary conclusion ("
In the early postwar decades, social democratic and affiliated
parties represented both the low-education and the low-income electorate, while conservative
and affiliated parties represented both high-education and high-income voters. These party
systems have gradually evolved towards “multi-elite party systems” in most Western
democracies, in which higher-educated elites vote for the left, whereas high-income elites still
vote for the right"), there's a fair amount of other hmmm data on skimming through (I have *not* read the whole thing)
...e.g. comparing non-US Western democracies against each other, there is no consistent correlation of self-reported economic class vs voting for a green party, *but* an almost linear correlation in *every* nation of green party support as a function of age (i.e. age 18-39 > 40-59 >60+)
TL;DR: as science-fiction authors have been using as plot devices for the last hundred years, modestly educated and some moral compass make the best planet colonizers. And neighbors.
-- sutton
