Methodological Appendix
The Mainstream Right and Family Policy Agendas in the Post-Fordist Age
ISBN: 978-1-83797-922-6, eISBN: 978-1-83797-921-9
Publication date: 3 June 2024
Citation
Giuliani, G.A. (2024), "Methodological Appendix", The Mainstream Right and Family Policy Agendas in the Post-Fordist Age, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 153-155. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83797-921-920241009
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2024 Giovanni Amerigo Giuliani. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited
A: List of National Elections
Germany
1990s: 1990, 1994, 1998 National Elections
2000s: 2002, 2005, 2009 National Elections
2010s: 2013, 2017 National Elections
Italy
1990s: 1994, 1996 National Elections
2000s: 2001, 2006, 2008 National Elections
2010: 2013; 2018 National Elections
Sweden
1990s: 1991, 1994, 1998 National Elections
2000s: 2002, 2006 National Elections
2010s: 2010, 2014, 2018 National Elections
The UK
1990s: 1992, 1997 National Elections
2000s: 2001, 2005 National Elections
2010s: 2010, 2015, 2017, 2019 National Elections
B: Variable Operationalization
Societal Modernization
The analysis relied on the data from the European Value Survey (EVS) to operationalize “societal modernization” in the 1980s and in the post-Fordist era – that is, authoritarian/libertarian attitudes regarding gender equality and, more specifically, gender roles inside and outside the households and the labor market. While the dataset provides longitudinal data from 1981 until 2017, these data were not available for each year, but only for some specific time-points (e.g., 1981, 1990, 1999, 2008, 2017). Therefore, each EVS wave was treated as proxy to identify the authoritarian/libertarian attitudes in the whole decade. Three criteria were chosen for selecting the survey waves: (a) the data had to be available for all four countries; (b) the wave was issued at the end of the decade or at the immediate beginning of the following one; (c) there was a sufficient time gap between one wave and the next.
By following these criteria, EVS 1990 was used to detect “societal modernization” in the 1980s; EVS 1999 was used to assess “societal modernization” in the 1990s; EVS 2008 operationalized the variable in the 2000s and EVS 2017 in the 2010s.
Below is the specific operationalization:
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| EVS 1999 |
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| EVS 2008 |
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| EVS 2017 |
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Since the three items are highly correlated, in the binary logistic regressions (Tables 3 and 4) run in Chapter 5, a simplified operationalization of the “societal modernization” variable was chosen, thus using only item 3 “pre-school child suffers with working mother”.
Skills in the Female Labor Force
For the classification of the skills, the analysis relied on Daniel Oesch's social class schema, readjusting it on the basis of Fleckenstein and Seeleib-Kaiser's schema (2011, p. 149). Below are the details:
Higher grade managers and administrators; Lower grade managers and administrators; Socio-cultural professionals; Socio-cultural semi-professionals; Technical experts; Technicians = High General Skills
Skilled clerks; Unskilled clerks; Skilled service; Low-skilled service = Low General Skills
Skilled manual; Low-skilled manual = Specific Skills
- Prelims
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Analyzing the Mainstream Right's Family Policy Agendas: A Theoretical Framework
- Chapter 2 The Family Policy Drivers: An Explanatory Multicausal Framework to Understand the Mainstream Right's Agendas
- Chapter 3 The Design of the Study
- Chapter 4 Analyzing the Mainstream Right's Family Policy Agendas: Empirical Results From the Content Analysis of Party Manifestos
- Chapter 5 The Macro-Drivers of the Mainstream Right's Family Policy Agendas: A Quantitative-Oriented Comparative Analysis
- Chapter 6 Tracing the Mainstream Right's Family Policy Agendas
- Conclusions
- Methodological Appendix
- References
- Index