Political cleavages and social inequalities : a study of fifty democracies, 1948-2020 / Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano, Thomas Piketty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gethin, Amory, 1995- author.

Martínez-Toledano, Clara, 1990- author.

Piketty, Thomas, 1971- author.

Standardized Title:

Clivages politiques et inégalités sociales. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Party affiliation--History--20th century.

Party affiliation.

Party affiliation--History--21st century.

Equality--Political aspects--History--20th century.

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 642 pages)

Online

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mas­sa­chu­setts ; London, ­England : Harvard University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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, 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.

Contents:

Political cleavages and social inequalities in fifty democracies, 1948-2020 / A. Gethin, C. Martínez-Toledano, and T. Piketty

Brahmin left vs merchant right: rising inequality and the changing structure of political conflict in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom, 1948-2020 / T. Piketty

Electoral cleavages and socioeconomic inequality in Germany, 1949-2017 / F. Kosse and T. Piketty

Changing party systems, socioeconomic cleavages, and nationalism in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, 1956-2017 / C. Martínez-Toledano and A. Sodano

Political cleavages, class structures, and the politics of old and new minorities in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, 1963-2019 / A. Gethin

Historical political cleavages and post-crisis transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1958-2020 / L. Bauluz, A. Gethin, C. Martínez-Toledano, and M. Morgan

Party system transformation and the structure of political cleavages in Austria, Belgium, the / Netherlands, and Switzerland, 1967-2019 / C. Durrer de la Sota, A. Gethin, and C. Martínez-Toledano

Political conflict, social inequality, and electoral cleavages in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, 1990-2018 / A. Lindner, F. Novokmet, T. Piketty, and T. Zawisza

Caste, class, and the changing political representation of social inequalities in India, 1962-2019 / A. Banerjee, A. Gethin, and T. Piketty

Social inequality and the dynamics of political and ethnolinguistic divides in Pakistan, 1970-2018 / A. Gethin, S. Mehmood, and T. Piketty

Political cleavages and the representation of social inequalities in Japan, 1953-2017 / A. Gethin

Democratization and the construction of class cleavages in Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, 1992-2019 / A. Gethin and T. Jenmana

Inequality, identity, and the structure of political cleavages in South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, 1996-2016 / C. Durrer De La Sota and A. Gethin

Democracy and the politicization of inequality in Brazil, 1989-2018 / A. Gethin and M. Morgan

Social inequalities, identity, and the structure of political cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru, 1952-2019 / O. Barrera, A. Leiva, C. Martínez-Toledano and A. Zúñiga-Cordero

Extreme inequality, elite transformation, and the changing structure of political cleavages in South Africa, 1994-2019 / A. Gethin

Social inequalities and the politicization of ethnic cleavages in Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, 1999-2019 / J. Baleyte, A. Gethin, Y. Govind and T. Piketty

Inequality, identity, and the long-run evolution of political cleavages in Israel 1949-2019 / Y. Berman

Political cleavages and social inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990-2019 / L. Assouad, A. Gethin, T. Piketty, and J. Uraz.

Notes:

First published in French as Clivages politiques et inégalités sociales. Une étude de 50 démocraties (1948-2020) (Paris: Les Éditions du Seuil, 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-674-26992-6

0-674-26991-8

OCLC:

1273972629