Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities: A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020

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Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities

A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020

Herausgegeben von: Amory Gethin , Clara Martínez-Toledano und Thomas Piketty

Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 2021

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The empirical starting point for anyone who wants to understand political cleavages in the democratic world, based on a unique dataset covering fifty countries since World War II.

Who votes for whom and why? Why has growing inequality in many parts of the world not led to renewed class-based conflicts, seeming instead to have come with the emergence of new divides over identity and integration? News analysts, scholars, and citizens interested in exploring those questions inevitably lack relevant data, in particular the kinds of data that establish historical and international context. Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities provides the missing empirical background, collecting and examining a treasure trove of information on the dynamics of polarization in modern democracies.

The chapters draw on a unique set of surveys conducted between 1948 and 2020 in fifty countries on five continents, analyzing the links between voters’ political preferences and socioeconomic characteristics, such as income, education, wealth, occupation, religion, ethnicity, age, and gender. This analysis sheds new light on how political movements succeed in coalescing multiple interests and identities in contemporary democracies. It also helps us understand the conditions under which conflicts over inequality become politically salient, as well as the similarities and constraints of voters supporting ethnonationalist politicians like Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro, Marine Le Pen, and Donald Trump.

Bringing together cutting-edge data and historical analysis, editors Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano, and Thomas Piketty offer a vital resource for understanding the voting patterns of the present and the likely sources of future political conflict.

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This book is a breakthrough in the existing literature on the politics of social inequality. Not merely is the analysis intensively data-based, it goes beyond the usual confines of a small number of western democracies to a set of fifty democracies (or semi-democracies) in different continents over many decades. The analysis throughout is highly sensible, informative, and insightful.
-- Pranab Bardhan, University of California, Berkeley

This monumental book presents the first international and historical analysis of political cleavages and of their interplay with inequality. This is a must-read book for anyone wanting to understand electoral politics in today’s democracies—the rise of ‘identity politics’ in some countries but not others, and the multiplicity of possible futures for the dynamic of inequality.
-- Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley

This impressive book will rapidly become the central reference point for systematically charting trends in voting alignment across the globe. By including nations from the global South alongside established liberal democracies, Gethin and his colleagues challenge endemic Western biases in political research and reveal the systematic ways that inequality and credentialism have redrawn voting patterns over recent decades. Gethin and his coauthors offer exactly the kind of big picture perspective which political activists and campaigners, as much as social scientists, will hugely appreciate.
-- Mike Savage, author of The Return of Inequality

This ambitious collection tackles a set of timely questions about the interplay among inequality levels and trends, political preferences and electoral behavior, and voters’ demographic and economic characteristics. Ideally, the volume will land in the hands of diverse audiences concerned with political polarization and social inequalities—including multidisciplinary social scientists, political actors, and social activists.
-- Janet C. Gornick, Director, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Here is a welcome throwback to the ambitious political sociology of the mid-twentieth century. The analyses are solid and the geographical range is appealingly broad. The authors’ portraits of shifting social cleavages raise fascinating questions about the nature and implications of ‘class politics’ in the contemporary world.
-- Larry M. Bartels, Vanderbilt University

Combining ambition with humility, this volume explores cross-national and temporal variation in the structure of political cleavages with an eye to explaining the conditions under which income and wealth inequality becomes a topic of political contestation (or not). Refreshingly, the volume sidesteps longstanding debates among political scientists and illustrates how looking for patterns in macro data can yield new insights. Harmonizing election surveys from fifty countries, the database assembled by Piketty and his collaborators itself represents a major contribution.
-- Jonas Pontusson, University of Geneva

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Frontmatter Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	i
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Introduction Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano und Thomas Piketty Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	1
1. Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020 A. Gethin, C. Martínez-Toledano und T. Piketty Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	7
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 Thomas Piketty Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	85
3. Electoral Cleavages and Socioeconomic Inequality in Germany, 1949–2017 Fabian Kosse und Thomas Pikett Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	136
4. Changing Party Systems, Socioeconomic Cleavages, and Nationalism in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, 1956–2017 Clara Martínez-Toledano und Alice Sodano Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	150
5. Political Cleavages, Class Structures, and the Politics of Old and New Minorities in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, 1963–2019 Amory Gethin Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	191
6. Historical Political Cleavages and Postcrisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland, 1953–2020 Luis Bauluz, Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano und Marc Morgan Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	221
7. Party System Transformation and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, 1967–2019 Carmen Durrer De La Sota Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	254
8. Political Conflict, Social Inequality, and Electoral Cleavages in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, 1990–2018 Attila Lindner, Filip Novokmet, Thomas Piketty und Tomaszz Awisza Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	287
9. Caste, Class, and the Changing Political Representation of Social Inequalities in India, 1962–2019 Abhijit Banerjee, Amory Gethin und Thomas Piketty Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	311
10. Social Inequality and the Dynamics of Political and Ethnolinguistic Divides in Pakistan, 1970–2018 Amory Gethin, Sultan Mehmood und Thomas Piketty Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	332
11. Political Cleavages and the Representation of Social Inequalities in Japan, 1953–2017 Amory Gethin Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	353
12. Democratization and the Construction of Class Cleavages in Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, 1992–2019 Amory Gethin und Thanasak Jenmana Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	375
13. Inequality, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, 1996–2016 Carmen Durrer De La Sota und Amory Gethin Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	405
14. Democracy and the Politicization of Inequality in Brazil, 1989–2018 Amory Gethin und Marc Morgan Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	434
15. Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, 1952–2019 Oscar Barrera, Ana Leiva, Clara Martínez-Toledano und Álvaro Zúñiga-Cordero Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	458
16. Extreme Inequality, Elite Transformation, and the Changing Structure of Political Cleavages in South Africa, 1994–2019 Amory Gethin Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	508
17. Social Inequalities and the Politicization of Ethnic Cleavages in Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, 1999–2019 Jules Baleyte, Amory Gethin, Yajna Govind und Thomas Piketty Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	531
18. Inequality, Identity, and the Long-Run Evolution of Political Cleavages in Israel, 1949–2019 Yonatan Berman Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	568
19. Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990–2019 Lydia Assouad, Amory Gethin, Thomas Piketty und Julie Uraz Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	587
Conclusion Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano und Thomas Piketty Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	617
Acknowledgments Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	623
Contributors Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	625
Index Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	627

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Political cleavages; Political divides; Political parties; Party systems; Elections; Voting; Inequality; Democracy; Populism; Globalization; Identity politics; Cultural politics; Ethnic conflicts; Class conflicts; Class cleavages

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