Field of Education and the Transnational Cleavage

Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks developed a micro approach to assess how social structure is expressed in voting for Green and TAN parties. This study seeks to do three things. First, it proposes a cleavage theory of party system change in which the rise of green and nationalist parties since the 1980s is explained as a response to a single exogenous shock, an information revolution that transformed capitalism and recast relations among the sexes. Second, it proposes that the field in which a person is educated is influential in conditioning a person’s partisanship on the contemporary cleavage. Third, it extends a field theory of education to gendered sorting and occupational variation in green and TAN voting.

Liesbet Hooghe is the W.R Kenan Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Research Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence.

Gary Marks is Burton Craige Professor of Political Science at UNC-Chapel Hill and Research Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence.

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