Project description
Exploring how the workplace influences political attitudes
While labour markets influence political attitudes, workplaces also play a key role. Social relations at work influence polarisation, redistribution preferences, and populism, underscoring the importance of evolving workplace dynamics on these outcomes. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the BridgeDem project will investigate how management styles and segregation in companies affect employees’ political views. It will connect political behaviour with the sociology of work, focusing on the workplace as a ‘bridging institution’ that promotes democracy. Applying a mixed-methods approach, it will combine qualitative interviews with administrative datasets and surveys to analyse trends across countries and sectors. It also includes outreach to unions and HRM associations, highlighting the workplace’s role in fostering democratic engagement.
Objective
How does the changing organization of work affect political conflict in advanced democracies? While we know much about the impact of labor markets on political attitudes and behavior, the workplace as a site of preference formation is largely unexplored – even if this is where a majority of people spend most of their awake time, experience contact and collaboration within and across status groups, and exchange about society and politics. BridgeDem argues that social relations at work impact affective polarization, preferences for redistribution, and support for populism, and that changing workplaces have exerted a major influence on these outcomes. Linking political behavior and political economy literatures with sociology of work & organization, it explores this argument in three ways, studying how (1) changing management styles (2) increasing vertical segregation between status groups and (3) increasing horizontal segregation between social groups in companies have impacted the political outlook of the employed. These inquiries contribute to the encompassing endeavor of building a theory of ‘bridging institutions’ – institutions that set different groups within a society into meaningful social contact and by doing so foster democracy, the workplace serving as a crucial yet underexplored case. To do so, this project leverages an innovative and mixed methodological strategy, combining (a) theory development on the basis of in-depth qualitative interviews with (b) causal identification by matching administrative employer-employee datasets with individual-level panel surveys (SOEP-IAB; LISS-CBS) and (c) assessing long-term trajectories across countries and sectors using administrative and cross-sectional survey data. This comes with an outreach initiative to unions, HRM associations and the public, promoting an understanding of the workplace not merely as a site of economy but equally as a societal ‘bridging institution’ that generates feedback on democracy.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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1010 Wien
Austria
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