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N-gated Hacker News May 13, 2025

Ah, the eternal mystery: why do people vote against their own interests? 🤔 Apparently, the answer lies buried under layers of academic jargon and irrelevant university promo. 🎓 Spoiler alert: it's not because they suddenly found a secret stash of empathy for billionaires. 🙄
https://www.unibocconi.it/en/news/why-poor-vote-right-and-stop-demanding-more-equality #votingbehaviour #selfinterest #politicalpsychology #academia #critique #HackerNews #ngated

Why the Poor Vote for the Right (and Stop Demanding More Equality) - Bocconi University

A new Bocconi study explains why politics no longer revolves around taxes, but cultural identity. And how the hard right gains ground precisely among those with the most to lose

Bocconi University

Anna C. Zielinska May 11, 2025

Institut Montaigne made an impressive study of the French youth which confirms the gender gap in politics observed in many other countries: young women are much less conservative than men.
https://www.institutmontaigne.org/ressources/pdfs/publications/les-jeunes-et-le-travail-aspirations-et-desillusions-des-16-30-ans.pdf

It wasn't always like this:
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/droits-des-femmes/quatre-vingts-ans-apres-leur-premier-vote-en-france-les-femmes-sont-presque-devenues-des-electrices-comme-les-autres_7208598.html

#InstitutMontaigne #gendergap #frenchyouth #frenchpolitics #votingbehavior #votingbehaviour

𝐏𝐌𝐏 🌐 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐞 Sep 25, 2023

The latest findings from the British Social Attitudes survey suggest younger #voters appear to have little faith that public spending will be directed their way.

#UKPolitics #Vote #VotingBehaviour #GeneralElection
https://www.pmp-magazine.com/2023/09/25/age-not-class-is-now-the-biggest-divide-in-british-politics/

Age, not class, is now the biggest divide in British politics

The latest findings from the British Social Attitudes survey suggest younger voters appear to have little faith that public spending will be directed their way.

PMP Magazine

GESIS Dec 16, 2022

#GermanFederalElection #germany #VotingBehaviour #LGB #LGBTQ
Out now: @[email protected]: "German Gays Go Green? Voting Behaviour of #Lesbians, #Gays, and #Bisexuals in the 2021 German Federal Election." @[email protected] doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102558.