The End of Class Politics Class Voting in Comparative Context [Hardcover]

The last few decades has seen a prolonged debate over the nature and importance of social class as a basis for ideology, class voting and class politics. In this book, leading scholars argue that the class basis of political competition has to some degree evolved, but not declined. Furthermore, the sweeping claims about the new politics of postindustrial society need to be re-examined.

1. Class Voting: From Premature Obituary to Reasoned Appraisal,Geoffrey Evans
Part 1: The Broad Comparative Picture
2. Traditional Class Voting in 20 Postwar Societies,Paul Nieuwbeerta and Nan Dirk De Graaf
Part II: Case Study of Western Democracies
3. Modelling the Pattern of Class Voting in British Elections,John H. Goldthorpe
4. Classes, Unions, and the Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting: 1952-1992,Michael Hout, Jeff Manza, and Clem Brooks
5. The Secret Life of Class Voting: Britain, France, and the United States Since the 1930s,David L. Weakliem and Anthony F. Heath
6. Class Cleavages and Party Preferences in Germany Old and New,Walter Muller
7. Changes in Class Voting in Norway,Kristen Ringdal and Kjell Hines
8. The Class Politics of Swedish Welfare Policies,Stefan Svallfors
Part III: The New Class Politics of Post-Communism
9. The Politics of Interests and Class Realignment in the Czech Republic,Petr Mateju, Blanka Rehakova and Geoffrey Evans
10. The Emergence of Class Politics and Class Voting in Post-Communist Russia,Geoffrey Evans and Stephen Whitefield
Part IV: Re-Appraisal, Commentary and Conclusions
11. Resolving Disputes about Class Voting in Britain and the United States: Definitions, Models and Data,David L. Weakliem and Anthony F. Heath
12. Commentary: Four Perspectives on 'The End of Class Politics?',Peter Mair, Seymour Martin Lipset, Michael l£¸