The End of Class Politics?: Class Voting in Comparative Context

by Geoffrey Evans (Editor)

Overview

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. In The 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191521218
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	09/23/1999
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Dr Geoffrey Evans is Faculty Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford

Table of Contents

1. Class Voting: From Premature Obituary to Reasoned Appraisal, Geoffrey EvansPart 1: The Broad Comparative Picture2. Traditional Class Voting in 20 Postwar Societies, Paul Nieuwbeerta and Nan Dirk De GraafPart II: Case Study of Western Democracies3. Modelling the Pattern of Class Voting in British Elections, John H. Goldthorpe4. Classes, Unions, and the Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting: 1952-1992, Michael Hout, Jeff Manza, and Clem Brooks5. The Secret Life of Class Voting: Britain, France, and the United States Since the 1930s, David L. Weakliem and Anthony F. Heath6. Class Cleavages and Party Preferences in Germany Old and New, Walter Muller7. Changes in Class Voting in Norway, Kristen Ringdal and Kjell Hines8. The Class Politics of Swedish Welfare Policies, Stefan SvallforsPart III: The New Class Politics of Post-Communism9. The Politics of Interests and Class Realignment in the Czech Republic, Petr Mateju, Blanka Rehakova and Geoffrey Evans10. The Emergence of Class Politics and Class Voting in Post-Communist Russia, Geoffrey Evans and Stephen WhitefieldPart IV: Re-Appraisal, Commentary and Conclusions11. Resolving Disputes about Class Voting in Britain and the United States: Definitions, Models and Data, David L. Weakliem and Anthony F. Heath12. Commentary: Four Perspectives on 'The End of Class Politics?', Peter Mair, Seymour Martin Lipset, Michael Hout, and John Goldthorpe13. Class and Vote: Disrupting the Orthodoxy, Geoffrey Evans

Editorial Reviews

"[T]he Evans volume employs a variety of refined techniques and analytical tools."—American Political Science Review

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