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Assess and analyse the view that voting behaviour has changed over the last 25 years
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Assess and analyse the view that voting behaviour has changed over the last 25 years "The understanding of contemporary working class politics is found, first and foremost in the structure of the workers group attachment and not as many have suggested, in the extent of his income and possessions." As the above quote suggests the understanding as to how working class people vote is found in the formation of the group's attachments to certain political parties. Those affluent workers who vote in favour of the Conservative party would usually have more white collar connections such as either their parents, siblings or wives in white-collar jobs or they themselves were employed in a white-collar occupations. We are socialised to behave in certain ways, the way we vote in elections is an aspect of this. If we ourselves as a member of working class and believe that the Labour party best represents...
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