Firm level experiences and party preferences

A rich literature shows that transformations in the world work have significant political spillovers. The winners and losers of transformations such as technological change and globalisation have diverging political opinions and party preferences. These differences in political support and behaviour have been variously explained by dissimilarities in labour market prospects and social recognition. Yet, the intermediary role of firm level experiences appears to be underexplored in these studies. The impact of transformations in the world of work on political support and behaviour is likely to dep end on firm level policies and practices. Thus, workers who are otherwise similarly vulnerable to these transformation s may worry less about their economic prospects and social recognition if they are recognised for their work at the workplace and involved in the decision making process of the firm. Put differently, perceptions about job quality at the workplace can shape the political responses of otherwise similarly vulnerable workers. To this end, we ask how does perceived job quality affect the party preferences of winners and losers of technological change and globalisation? We use a large scale cross national survey (n=22,370) fielded in 10 advanced economies between May and July 2024. The advantage of this dataset is that it contains questions measuring respondents’ workplace experience including their jobs’ quality.