"Key findings
• Persons experiencing downward class mobility from the upper
to the working class are more likely to support far-right parties.
• This relationship is driven primarily by existential and material
factors, such as life dissatisfaction and job and income insecurity,
rather than distrust of elites or anti-immigration attitudes.
• National class mobility levels also affect this relationship:
downward mobility has a stronger impact in societies in which
levels of class decline are low overall.
• Despite their propensity to support the far right, downwardly
mobile persons constitute a small proportion of the far-right
electorate. This suggests that this social group is not one of
the main success drivers of the far-right, and should rather be
seen as part of the often larger set of voters with economic
grievances that make it possible for far-right parties to broaden
their electoral base beyond their core supporters."

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