The great class shift : how new social class structures are redefining Western politics / Thibault Muzergues.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muzergues, Thibault, author.

Standardized Title:

Quadrature des classes. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Political participation--Social aspects--Western countries.

Political participation.

Social structure--Political aspects--Western countries.

Social structure.

Social classes--Western countries.

Social classes.

Political parties--Western countries.

Political parties.

Elections--Social aspects--Western countries.

Elections.

Politics and government.

Elections--Social aspects.

Social structure--Political aspects.

Political participation--Social aspects.

Western countries--Politics and government--21st century.

Western countries.

Physical Description:

xvi, 143 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Muzergues, Thibault, The great class shift

ISBN:

9780367342111

0367342111

9780367342104

0367342103

OCLC:

1107568145