ABSTRACT
Against the backdrop of rising political polarisation in many countries, this chapter focuses on class and political boundaries in the Danish welfare-oriented context. In a multiple correspondence analysis of data from The Danish Values Study, 2017 (n = 3,362), confidence in societal institutions, political attitudes, and voting are related to cultural and economic resources. We find a tripartite division in political boundaries between the culturally privileged, the economically privileged, and the less privileged. Comparison with the same study from 2008 (n = 1,507) highlights changes in political boundaries, with a moderate rise in social polarisation, a remarkable stability in the level of socio-political polarisation, and a moderate decrease in confidence in the social security system. We assume strong welfare traditions have curbed stronger political polarisation.
