ABSTRACT

This article argues that previous public administration and political science research might have missed important class-based inequalities by primarily focusing on ethnic discrimination among public officials and ignoring discrimination based on socioeconomic status (SES). A large-scale field experiment on the presence of SES discrimination among local Swedish public officials is presented. A total of 3430 Swedish elementary school principals were randomly contacted by parents with low- or high-SES professions and with Arabic- or Swedish-sounding names. The fictional parents were considering moving to the municipality and were interested in placing their children at the school. The results show clear signs of SES discrimination, particularly in regard to the more qualitative aspects of the replies. The findings also show interactions between SES and ethnicity, in which primarily the more formal aspects of the replies suggested that SES discrimination could be more prevalent against ethnic minority aliases than against other aliases.

摘要

本文认为，以前的公共行政和政治科学研究可能主要关注公职人员中的种族歧视，而忽视了基于社会经济地位（SES）的歧视，从而错过了重要的基于阶级的不平等。介绍了一项关于瑞典当地公职人员中社会经济地位歧视存在情况的大规模实地实验。社会经济地位低或高的职业以及名字听起来像阿拉伯语或瑞典语的家长随机联系了总共 3430 名瑞典小学校长。虚构的父母正在考虑搬到市政府，并有兴趣将孩子安置在学校。结果显示出社会经济地位歧视的明显迹象，特别是在答复的定性方面。