The End of Class Politics?

Class Voting in Comparative Context

• Author(s): Geoffrey Evans,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 364
• ISBN_10: 0198280955
  ISBN_13: 9780198280958
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections , Political Science / History & Theory , Political Science / Political Process / General , Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity ,

Description:... 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. The prevailing assumption is that, in western societies, class inequalities are no longer important in determining political behaviour. In this volume, scholars from the US, UK and Europe argue that the evidence on which the assumptions about the decline importance of class are based is unfounded. Instead, the book argues that the class basis of political competition has to some degree evolved, but not declined. Furthermore, the social basis of political competition and sweeping claims about the new politics of postindustrial society need to be re-examined.