Changing Class Structure in the Post-industrial Netherlands political orientation of the

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Changing Class Structure in the Post-industrial
Netherlandspolitical orientation of the new
social classes between 1970-2000

• Ayse Güveli Ariana Need Nan Dirk de Graaf
• University of NijmegenICS/SociologyA.Guveli_at_maw.
  kun.nl

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Class structures for men for six five-year
periods in the Netherlands (1970-1999)
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Research Questions

• To what extent is the EGP class-schema less
  applicable to the occupational structure of Dutch
  society, given the structural changes related to
  the transition from industrial to post-industrial
  society?
• To what extent does the adjusted EGP class-schema
  predict peoples political orientation better
  than the EGP class-schema?
• To what extent do the distinguished new classes
  become more effective to explain the differences
  (effect size) in peoples political orientation
  over time?

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Theories about post-industrial class structure

• Employment relations
• - difficulty monitoring the work
• - specificity of human capital
• new class theory
• - technocrats and specialists
• - Controllers and social and cultural
  specialists
• Materialists and Post-materialists
• Economical and Cultural elites

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Adjusting EGP Class Schema

• Difficulty of monitoring the work
• Managerial versus social-cultural specialised
  knowledge based tasks
• Manager more than 9 subordinates

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Data

• Data gathered between 1970 to 2000 from 18
  surveys (N32700)
• ISCO
• Dependent variables
• Left v. right voting behaviour
• New left v. right voting behaviour
• Old left v. right voting behaviour
• Independent variables
• Standart EGP, adjusted EGP, education, sector of
  employment
• Controlled for age and gender

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Conclusion

• The adjusted EGP class schema is substantially
  better to explain peoples political orientation
• The distinguished new social classes are more
  leftist than the old classes
• The low-grade social and cultural specialists
  have formed themselves as the most leftist social
  class over time (1970-2000)
• People employed in public sector vote more for
  left-wing political parties