| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 136 pages) |
| Contents |
CLASS SHIFTING: HOW FOUR SOCIAL CLASSES CAME TO REDEFINE OUR ELECTORAL -- LANDSCAPES -- In the Beginning Was the Creative Class -- The Suburban (and Provincial) Middle Class: a pro-system rebellion -- The New Minority, or the revolt of the white working-class -- The Millennials, or the Left's new rebels -- FALLING APART OR COMING TOGETHER? COALITION DILEMMAS FOR ELECTION VICTORY -- IN A FOUR-CLASS SYSTEM -- France and the United States: from new fault lines to new coalitions -- North-Western Europe: Divergent scenarios in the economic heart of Europe -- Central and Eastern Europe: Power to the (white) working class -- Southern Europe: The Heart of the Millennial Challenge |
| Summary |
"This thought-provoking book offers a new global approach to understand how four social class structures have rocked our political systems, to the extent that no politician or political party can exist today without claiming to be speaking on their behalf, and no politician can hope to win an electoral majority without building a coalition between these classes. Based on a four-fold analysis - Urban and Liberal Creatives, Suburban Middle Class, White Working Class and the Millennials - this book shows that while many have focused on a supply-side vision of politics to explain the upheavals in our political party systems, a vision centred on demand - and the Weberian take on political parties as vehicles for class interests - is more compelling. In 2016, our political world was changed forever by the victories of Brexit in the UK and Donald Trump in the USA. Far from being confined to the Anglosphere however, changes have also rocked the political landscapes in Europe. As the crisis of 2008 has shaken the foundations of Western societies, shrinking the size of the previously all-powerful middle class, new classes have emerged, and with them a new political demand that new (or old) parties have tried to satisfy. This book will be of key interest to political practitioners (politicians, advisors/consultants, journalists, political pundits, party builders and government officials) and more broadly to academics, students and readers of European and Western politics, political sociology, party politics and political parties and electoral demographics"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Thibault Muzergues is Europe Program Director at the International Republican Institute's Europe Regional Office, Austria |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 17, 2019) |
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Political participation -- Social aspects -- Western countries
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Social structure -- Political aspects -- Western countries
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Social classes -- Western countries
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Political parties -- Western countries
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Elections -- Social aspects -- Western countries
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.
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Elections -- Social aspects
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Political participation -- Social aspects
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Political parties
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Politics and government
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Social classes
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Social structure -- Political aspects
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| SUBJECT |
Western countries -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Western countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019029095 |
| ISBN |
0429324480 |
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9781000727432 |
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1000727432 |
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9781000727296 |
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1000727297 |
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9781000727159 |
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1000727157 |
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9780429324482 |
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