Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities : : A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020 / / ed. by Clara Martínez-Toledano, Thomas Piketty, Amory Gethin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Assouad, Lydia,; Awisza, Tomaszz,; Baleyte, Jules,; Banerjee, Abhijit,; Barrera, Oscar,; Bauluz, Luis,; Berman, Yonatan,; Durrer De La Sota, Carmen,; Gethin, A.,; Gethin, Amory,; Govind, Yajna,; Jenmana, Thanasak,; Kosse, Fabian,; Leiva, Ana,; Lindner, Attila,; Martínez-Toledano, C.,; Martínez-Toledano, Clara,; Mehmood, Sultan,; Morgan, Marc,; Novokmet, Filip,; Pikett, Thomas,; Piketty, T.,; Piketty, Thomas,; Sodano, Alice,; Uraz, Julie,; Zúñiga-Cordero, Álvaro,
• HerausgeberIn: Gethin, Amory,; Martínez-Toledano, Clara,; Piketty, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.)

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 WWII. Who votes for whom and why? Why has growing inequality in many parts of the world not led to renewed class-based conflicts, seem...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• 1. Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020
• 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
• 3. Electoral Cleavages and Socioeconomic Inequality in Germany, 1949–2017
• 4. Changing Party Systems, Socioeconomic Cleavages, and Nationalism in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, 1956–2017
• 5. Political Cleavages, Class Structures, and the Politics of Old and New Minorities in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, 1963–2019
• 6. Historical Political Cleavages and Postcrisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland, 1953–2020
• 7. Party System Transformation and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, 1967–2019
• 8. Political Conflict, Social Inequality, and Electoral Cleavages in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, 1990–2018
• 9. Caste, Class, and the Changing Political Representation of Social Inequalities in India, 1962–2019
• 10. Social Inequality and the Dynamics of Political and Ethnolinguistic Divides in Pakistan, 1970–2018
• 11. Political Cleavages and the Representation of Social Inequalities in Japan, 1953–2017
• 12. Democratization and the Construction of Class Cleavages in Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, 1992–2019
• 13. Inequality, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, 1996–2016
• 14. Democracy and the Politicization of Inequality in Brazil, 1989–2018
• 15. Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, 1952–2019
• 16. Extreme Inequality, Elite Transformation, and the Changing Structure of Political Cleavages in South Africa, 1994–2019
• 17. Social Inequalities and the Politicization of Ethnic Cleavages in Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, 1999–2019
• 18. Inequality, Identity, and the Long-Run Evolution of Political Cleavages in Israel, 1949–2019
• 19. Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990–2019
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Index