Sobreeducación y preferencias políticasefectos del desajuste entre educación y empleo sobre el posicionamiento ideológico, el radicalismo y el voto a izquierda y derecha

  1. Caínzos, Miguel 1
  2. Voces, Carmen 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

    ROR https://ror.org/030eybx10

Journal:
RES. Revista Española de Sociología

ISSN: 2445-0367,  1578-2824

Year of publication: 2023

Volume: 32

Issue: 2

Type: Article

DOI: 10.22325/FES/RES.2023.158 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

The aim of the article is to study the relationship between the experience of overeducation and political preferences in Spain, a country with a high rate of overeducation. Using survey data from two post-electoral surveys, we estimate Diagonal Reference Models to test hypotheses on the effects of educational mismatch on ideological self-placement, ideological radicalism, and left-right voting. We find indications that overeducation is somewhat associated with a more left-wing position and with a higher probability of voting for left-wing parties.  These effects are modest and are moderated by age: they are only found for young workers. This could be due to contextual reasons (in Spain political discourse has framed overeducation as a problem affecting young people) or to structural factors (status inconsistency is only politically relevant when the degree of structural crystallization of status positions is low).

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