The Anxious Middle Class: Risk of Downward Mobility and Support for Radical Right Parties across Western Europe
研究了13个西欧国家中产阶级的经济不安全感（特别是职业向下流动风险）与激进右翼政党支持之间的关系，发现两者正相关，表明中产阶级衰落有政治影响。
This paper examines the relationship between economic insecurity of the middle class and support for radical right parties (RRP) in 13 Western European countries. Economic insecurity is conceptualised as the occupational risk of downward mobility. To capture the potential mitigating effects of upward mobility prospects and a growing middle class on economic insecurity, I compute a novel index that incorporates the other two dynamics in addition to the risk of downward mobility. I find that economic insecurity differs across occupational groups and countries. Both measures are positively correlated with RRP support. The results highlight that the decline of the middle class has implications for the political sphere.