Joe Greenwood-Hau

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Capital, Privilege and Political Participation | Home This book will be available open access upon publication.

Sadly, the variable didn't make it into my new @britishacademy.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social Monograph, 'Capital, Privilege and Political Participation'

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This is probably my favourite variable in the dataset (yes, I have a favourite variable).

Worth noting that, at the time of the survey, about 1/3 of MPs were privately educated, which was still 5 TIMES the rate in the population.

Still, people overestimated even that figure!

Survey Variable: Perceived Private Education of MPs Figure 1. See also Table A1. Beyond perceptions of their own engagement with politics, people also have perceptions of politics itself. These might relate to how open, responsive, or efficacious th…

Today we move onto perceptions of politics in the Privilege & Participation Survey. First: Perceived Private Education of MPs.

privilegeandparticipation.org/2021/12/24/s...

Takeaway: On average, people think 68% of MPs were privately educated (twice the actual %).

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‘No one listens to us’: the working-class despair fuellin... Under the racist chants at last week’s rally lies a deep sense of political betrayal

“A demonstration of the toxic melding of the inchoateness of popular discontent, the inability of the left to speak to working-class grievances and the venomous malevolence of the far right that shapes so much of politics.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Happy Monday morning!

Here's the final Privilege & Participation Survey variable on political or civic participation (blurred line!): Religious Involvement.

privilegeandparticipation.org/2022/03/08/s...

Takeaway: The data measures MANY facets of religious involvement.

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First books published under new partnership with Liverpool University Press – with new 'delayed Open Access' Eight new British Academy books are the first to be published with Liverpool University Press as part of a new partnership this year.

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...survey respondents being disproportionately politically active.
Second, this is old data. The most recent general election at the time was 2010. A lot has changed but, to my knowledge, there's no other data that covers all the concepts in this data in so much detail.

Survey Variable: Past Vote Figure 1. See also Table A1. Perhaps the form of political participation that has received most attention is voting. This is for good reason; it is consequential in the sense that it clearly affect…

Today's Privilege & Participation Survey variable is the bread and butter of political behaviour research: Past Vote.

privilegeandparticipation.org/2022/01/17/s...

Two notes:
First, the small percentage of non-voters (16%) illustrates the perennial problem of... (1/2)

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How do non-participants RANK the reasons for their disengagement?

Privilege & Participation Survey data can help here too:

privilegeandparticipation.org/2021/06/21/s...

Takeaway: Quite flat distribution of mean rankings but lack of confidence, skills and money are top.

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OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO POLITICAL PARTICIPATION? MPS, ACTIVISTS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SUGGEST OUTREACH, CIVIC EDUCATION AND (TRUSTWORTHY) INFORMATION - John Smith Centre What stops people from getting involved in politics, and how can we help remove those barriers? Those are key questions for us here at the John Smith Centre, where we work on providing routes into…

How do we overcome barriers to political participation? 🤔

Dr Joe Greenwood-Hau @niceonecombo.bsky.social's latest blog draws on findings from his new book that MPs, activists & members of the public suggest outreach, civic education & (trustworthy) information.

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Of course, I also consider it in detail in Chapter 4 (Political Participation and Non-Participation) of my new book!

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I analysed reasons for non-participationin more detail, alongside the reasons that MPs and activists give for why people might not participate, in a recent @johnsmithcentre.com blog:

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Survey Variable: Selected Reasons for Non-Involvement Figure 1. See also Table A1. Respondents who indicated that they didn’t do any political acts or get involved in any organisations (n = 505) were asked to indicate the reasons for their lack …

What about non-participants?

An important feature of the Privilege & Participation Survey is its question on reasons for not partipating:

privilegeandparticipation.org/2021/06/15/s...

Takeaway: Lack of time and money (+confidence) are most selected by non-participants.

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Energy price cap warning as latest rise takes effect The energy price cap remains vulnerable to gas price shocks and rising costs including green energy investment but households are being told they can still shield themselves from fluctuations ahead.

Average annual household energy bill hits £1,755.

£4.43bn energy debt, people can't afford it.

Since 2020 big energy companies made £514bn operating profit.

128000 a year die in fuel poverty

Profiteering fuels inflation, poverty.

Can't rebuild economy without ending profiteering.

The survey question was an open text box, asking people to name all the organisations that they support.

I manually coded the answers into categories. Again, this was time-consuming!

Note: People could list as many organisations as they wanted, so the percentages are of all organisations listed.

Survey Variable: Organisations Supported Those respondents who indicated that they supported a campaign organisation or a charity (or both) were given the opportunity to write the organisation(s) that they support into an open text box. F…

Moving on from how people support organisations, here's the Privilege & Participation Survey data on the types of organisations supported:

privilegeandparticipation.org/2021/05/07/s...

Takeaway: health charities and campaigns make up 30% of ALL organisations supported.

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Last type of support for organisations, the Privilege & Participation Survey variable on unpaid positions of responsibility:

privilegeandparticipation.org/2021/04/22/s...

Takeaway: over 90% don't hold such a position; 1-2% in each category from less than 1 to 10+ years

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Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

“He prefers to be elected on our ideas, rather than fight for his own. In general, people prefer the original to the copy."*

*Jean-Marie Le Pen, 1990 re. former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.

BARRIERS TO POLITICS IDENTIFIED BY NON-PARTICIPANTS: TIME, MONEY, LACK OF CONFIDENCE AND THE SENSE THAT IT'S "NOT FOR ME" - John Smith Centre Two key questions for anyone interested in democracy working are, or should be: who does not participate in politics, and why? Answers to these questions often overlook the views of a key group: polit...

Why do some people stay out of politics? 🤔

Dr Joe Greenwood-Hau @niceonecombo.bsky.social explores barriers faced by non-participants — time, money, confidence, and the feeling it’s 'not for me' — in a new blog linked to his newly published book. 👇

* Obviously, I meant: 'better off.'

I blame the hysteria from the good news.

They’re not on course to form the next gov. Today’s polling suggests they might win if there was an election today…

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Exciting personal news:

Yesterday, the Student Loans Company confirmed that I've paid off my undergraduate student loan. I graduated in 2007.

Accounting for the repayments from my pay, and the direct debit top-up, I'll be a few hundred quid a month better of.

Very pleased indeed.

Again looking in more detail at organisational support, here are the Privilege & Participation Survey membership variables:

privilegeandparticipation.org/2021/04/22/s...

Takeaway: 7 in 10 aren't members; amongst those who are, a plurality have been for 10+ years.

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YouGov MRP shows a Reform UK government a near-certainty if an election were held tomorrow | YouGov Second YouGov MRP model since the 2024 election projects Reform UK would win 311 seats, just 15 short of a majority

I'd say the last six words of the headline may well be more important than the first ten.