Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
Material insecurity drives support for progressive policy despite also reducing faith in government: evidence from UK voters in 2024
Material insecurity predicts support for right-wing populist parties, leading some to conclude that ambitious progressive policy programmes are electorally unviable in contexts of widespread economic anxiety. Yet an alternative scholarly tradition holds that material insecurity should increase, not decrease, demand for redistribution and social insurance, which are at the core of progressive policy offers. This article makes two contributions. First, we present a single-item measure of subjective material insecurit …