The End of Class Politics?: Class Voting in Comparative Context

Abstract

1. Class Voting: From Premature Obituary to Reasoned Appraisal PART 1: THE BROAD COMPARATIVE PICTURE 2. Traditional Class Voting in 20 Postwar Societies PART II: CASE STUDY OF WESTERN DEMOCRACIES 3. Modelling the Pattern of Class Voting in British Elections 4. Classes, Unions, and the Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting: 1952-1992 5. The Secret Life of Class Voting: Britain, France, and the United States Since the 1930s 6. Class Cleavages and Party Preferences in Germany Old and New 7. Changes in Class Voting in Norway 8. The Class Politics of Swedish Welfare Policies PART III: THE NEW CLASS POLITICS OF POST-COMMUNISM 9. The Politics of Interests and Class Realignment in the Czech Republic 10. The Emergence of Class Politics and Class Voting in Post-Communist Russia PART IV: RE-APPRAISAL, COMMENTARY AND CONCLUSIONS 11. Resolving Disputes about Class Voting in Britain and the United States: Definitions, Models and Data 12. Commentary: Four Perspectives on 'The End of Class Politics?' 13. Class and Vote: Disrupting the Orthodoxy