New LSE blog: Even honest research results can flip – a new approach to assessing robustness in the social sciences

Reposted from LSE Blog. When academic studies get things wrong, it is often blamed on misconduct and fraud. Yet, as we argue in a recent post with Michael Ganslmeier , even good-faith research, conducted using standard methods and transparent data, can produce contradictory conclusions.

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How and why actual class decline leads to far-right party support

Does downward class mobility increase the likelihood of voting for far-right parties? If so, why, and through which mechanisms? How important is the group of downwardly mobile individuals for driving far-right party success? In a new article with Alexi Gugushvili and Daphne Halikiopoulou we argue that downward class mobility significantly affects far-right voting but only under specific conditions.

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