iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jochem van Noord

@jochemvannoord.eu

400 followers 883 following 16 posts

Jochem van Noord @jochemvannoord.eu · 07/02/2025

🏁New paper! Social status moderates the effect of belief in meritocracy on economic conflict attitudes. Meritocracy doesn't always legitimize inequality and sometimes it does more :) Published with @bramspruyt.bsky.social Filip Van Droogenbroeck and @tkupp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Title page of "Caught Between Ideology and Self‐Interest: Subjective
Social Status and Meritocratic Beliefs Shape Whether
People Perceive, Feel Anger About, and Want to Change
Economic Conflict"
Abstract: "Belief in meritocracy and social status are central to understanding how people think and behave in relation to economic conflict. In this paper, we investigate how belief in meritocracy is moderated by (subjective) social status for three different aspects of citizens' attitudes towards economic inequality and conflict, namely (1) perceived conflict, (2) anger about economic inequality and (3) intentions to change economic conflict (egalitarianism). Data from the International Social Survey Programme on 29 countries reveal that the effect of meritocracy depends on social status and differs meaningfully across the three attitudes. For people high in social status, belief in meritocracy relates to lower perceptions of conflict, anger, and egalitarianism. For people with a low subjective social status there is no or a weak relation of belief in meritocracy with the outcomes. In addition, when belief in meritocracy was low, those with a high subjective social status appeared to be concerned about inequality as they perceived more economic conflict and felt more anger than those with a low subjective social status. However, this was not the case for intentions to reduce inequality. Hence, these effects of meritocracy and social status should be understood in light of self-interest concerns of social groups, rather than solely ideological domination."

Figure 1: Predicted values of conflict perception across belief in meritocracy and subjective social status.

Figure 3: Predicted values of egalitarianism across belief meritocracy and subjective social status.

12011 20

Jochem van Noord @jochemvannoord.eu · 13/03/2024

🏁New paper @ESR_news! We explore, with correlational class analysis, the variaties of belief systems across 23 European countries. We investigate differences in density, dimensionality, demography, and relation to voting behavior. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

1126 12

Jochem van Noord @jochemvannoord.eu · 22/01/2024

🏁New paper! We find that affective bias towards 'the higher educated' is associated with more political trust, satisfaction w/ democracy and less populism In @actapolitica.bsky.social with Toon Kuppens, @bramspruyt.bsky.social Leandros Kavadias, Celine Darnon & Medhi Marot doi.org/10.1057/s412...

Title & abstract of paper in Acta Politica: Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism

12312 23