Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020 7
5. 2. Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right: Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom, 1948–2020 85
6. 3. Electoral Cleavages and Socioeconomic Inequality in Germany, 1949–2017 136
7. 4. Changing Party Systems, Socioeconomic Cleavages, and Nationalism in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, 1956–2017 150
8. 5. Political Cleavages, Class Structures, and the Politics of Old and New Minorities in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, 1963–2019 191
9. 6. Historical Political Cleavages and Postcrisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland, 1953–2020 221
10. 7. Party System Transformation and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, 1967–2019 254
11. 8. Political Conflict, Social Inequality, and Electoral Cleavages in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, 1990–2018 287
12. 9. Caste, Class, and the Changing Political Representation of Social Inequalities in India, 1962–2019 311
13. 10. Social Inequality and the Dynamics of Political and Ethnolinguistic Divides in Pakistan, 1970–2018 332
14. 11. Political Cleavages and the Representation of Social Inequalities in Japan, 1953–2017 353
15. 12. Democratization and the Construction of Class Cleavages in Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, 1992–2019 375
16. 13. Inequality, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, 1996–2016 405
17. 14. Democracy and the Politicization of Inequality in Brazil, 1989–2018 434
18. 15. Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, 1952–2019 458
19. 16. Extreme Inequality, Elite Transformation, and the Changing Structure of Political Cleavages in South Africa, 1994–2019 508
20. 17. Social Inequalities and the Politicization of Ethnic Cleavages in Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, 1999–2019 531
21. 18. Inequality, Identity, and the Long-Run Evolution of Political Cleavages in Israel, 1949–2019 568
22. 19. Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990–2019 587
23. Conclusion 617
24. Acknowledgments 623
25. Contributors 625
26. Index 627