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1 online resource (380 pages) |
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Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- 1. Class Voting: From Premature Obituary to Reasoned Appraisal -- PART I: THE BROAD COMPARATIVE PICTURE -- 2. Traditional Class Voting in Twenty Postwar Societies -- PART II: CASE STUDIES OF WESTERN DEMOCRACIES -- 3. Modelling the Pattern of Class Voting in British Elections, 1964�1992 -- 4. Classes, Unions, and the Realignment of US Presidential Voting, 1952�1992 -- 5. The Secret Life of Class Voting: Britain, France, and the United States since the 1930s |
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6. Class Cleavages in Party Preferences in Germany�Old and New7. Changes in Class Voting in Norway, 1957�1989 -- 8. The Class Politics of Swedish Welfare Policies -- PART III: THE NEW CLASS POLITICS OF POST-COMMUNISM -- 9. The Politics of Interests and Class Realignment in the Czech Republic, 1992�1996 -- 10. The Emergence of Class Politics and Class Voting in Post-communist Russia -- PART IV: REAPPRAISAL, COMMENTARY, AND CONCLUSIONS -- 11. Resolving Disputes about Class Voting in Britain and the United States: Definitions, Models, and Data |
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12. Critical Commentary: Four Perspectives on The End of Class Politics?13. Class and Vote: Disrupting the Orthodoxy -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z |
| Summary |
Annotation The last few decades has seen a prolonged debate over the nature and importance of social class as a basis for ideology, class voting and class politics. The prevailing assumption is that, in western societies, class inequalities are no longer important in determining political behaviour. InThe End of Class Politics? leading scholars from the US, UK and Europe argue that the evidence on which the assumptions about the decline importance of class is based is unfounded. Instead, the book argues that the class basis of political competition has to some degree evolved, but not declined. Furthermore, the social basis of political competition and sweeping claims about the new politics of postindustrial society need to be re-examined |
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Print version record |
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Voting -- History -- 20th century
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Social classes -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century
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Social classes -- Political aspects
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Voting
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Oxford University Press
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| ISBN |
0198296347 |
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9780198296348 |
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