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P. Clifford, A. F. Heath, The Political Consequences of Social Mobility, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, Volume 156, Issue 1, January 1993, Pages 51–61, https://doi.org/10.2307/2982860
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This paper examines the effect of social mobility on voting behaviour by using diagonal reference models. The EM algorithm is used to fit the models. Asymmetrical mobility effects are found on voting for the Labour party, the downwardly mobile from the salariat being more likely to retain the voting patterns of their class of origin than are the upwardly mobile into the salariat. It is suggested that this asymmetry can be explained by countermobility.