Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Research and Science Today, cilt.2, sa.22, ss.1-12, 2026 (Hakemli Dergi)
Recently, social class has been gaining importance in Turkish daily politics. There are notable efforts made by the main opposition party, the CHP, to bring the issue to the centre of political debate. Nevertheless, far too little empirical scholarly attention has been paid to understand its role in Turkish political attitudes and behavior. Contrary to the situation in Türkiye, social class is a widely studied phenomenon in the Western literature. The conventional assumption is that working-class members of society are more likely to vote for pro-interventionist and pro-redistributionist left-wing political parties than their middle class counterparts. This research aims to empirically explore class-vote link in Türkiye with four rounds of the World Values Survey cross-sectional data achieved from the grassroots of the three major political parties. It aims to answer the following question: To what extent social class positions determine voting preferences of the Turkish electorate? Using a series of Multinomial Logistic Regression Models (MLRM), it is revealed that social class, in general, does not play a statistically significant role in determining voters’ party preferences in Türkiye.