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Housing, the Class Milieu and Middle-Class Conservatism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

Philip Garrahan
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The class composition of the local environment has been shown to affect both Conservative and Labour voters and type of housing has been strongly associated with the ties between class and party. Studies of contextual influences on individual political behaviour(s) have consistently shown the potent mediating effect of increasing levels of social homogeneity. In Britain, it has been demonstrated that the class–vote relationship is strengthened for the numerically dominant class as the social milieu becomes more homogeneous, while the political significance of housing policy is reflected in the relationship between differences in type of occupancy and class–party ties.

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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 1977 , pp. 126 - 127
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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