Calendrier du 12 janvier 2021
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 12/01/2021 de 17:00 à 18:00
Zoom : https://zoom.us/j/97117933045?pwd=VG5oY0RDaWJMbmtSY2o3Y2F5RkZxZz09
LOBECK Max ( University of Konstanz)
Motivating Beliefs in a Just World
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 12/01/2021 de 12:30 à 13:30
DARCILLON Thibault ()
The Brahmin Left, the Merchant Right, and the Bloc Bourgeois
écrit avec Bruno Amable (Université de Genève)
In a recent paper, Piketty (2018) argues that the vote for the left in France, the UK and the USA tends increasingly to be associated with a high education level whereas a traditional class- or income-based divide separated left from right individuals in the 1950s and 1960s. The current situation would be characterized by a dominance of “elites” in left and right constituencies: financially rich elites vote for the right (merchant right), high-education elites vote for the left (brahmin left). Using ISSP data for 17 countries, this paper tests the influence of income and education inequalities on political leaning and a variety of policy preferences: the support for redistribution, for investment in public education, for globalisation and immigration. Results show that income levels are still relevant for the left-right divide, but the influence differs across education levels. Our findings also point to a certain convergence of opinion among the Brahmin left and the merchant right, which could lead to a new political divide beyond the left and the right, uniting a bloc bourgeois.