The Breakdown Of Class Politics

Author : Terry Nichols Clark,Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 080186576X

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The Breakdown of Class Politics by Terry Nichols Clark,Seymour Martin Lipset Pdf

Class and its linkage to politics became a controversial and exciting topic again in the 1990s. Terry Clark and Seymour Martin Lipset published "Are Social Classes Dying?" in 1991, which sparked a lively debate and much new research. The main critics of Clark and Lipset—at Oxford and Berkeley—held (initially) that class was more persistent than Clark and Lipset suggested. The positions were sharply opposed and involved several conceptual and methodological concerns. But the issues grew more nuanced as further reflections and evidence accumulated. This book draws on four main conferences organized by the editors. Sharply contrasting views are forcefully argued with rich and subtle evidence. The volume includes a broad overview and synthesis; major reports by leading participants; and original theoretical and empirical contributions.

Author : Richard F. Hamilton
Publisher : New York : Wiley
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Political sociology
ISBN : UCSC:32106008658640

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Class and Politics in the United States by Richard F. Hamilton Pdf

Author : Morris P. Fiorina
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780806184807

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Disconnect by Morris P. Fiorina Pdf

Red states, blue states . . . are we no longer the United States? Morris P. Fiorina here examines today’s party system to reassess arguments about party polarization while offering a cogent overview of the American electorate. Building on the arguments of Fiorina’s acclaimed Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, this book explains how contemporary politics differs from that of previous eras and considers what might be done to overcome the unproductive politics of recent decades. Drawing on polling results and other data, Fiorina examines the disconnect between an unrepresentative “political class” and the citizenry it purports to represent, showing how politicians have become more polarized while voters remain moderate; how politicians’ rhetoric and activities reflect hot-button issues that are not public priorities; and how politicians’ dogmatic, divisive, and uncivil style of “debate” contrasts with the more civil discourse of ordinary Americans, who tend to be more polite and open to compromise than their leaders. Disconnect depicts politicians out of touch with the larger public, distorting issues and information to appeal to narrow interest groups. It can help readers better understand the political divide between leaders and the American public—and help steer a course for change.

Author : Adolph L. Reed,Walter Benn Michaels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912475294

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No Politics But Class Politics by Adolph L. Reed,Walter Benn Michaels Pdf

Author : David Croteau
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1566392551

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Politics and the Class Divide by David Croteau Pdf

"People don't believe they have a say anymore, so they've given up.">p>That's the cynical conclusion of one worker in this study of the relationships between working people and the middle-class left. This rare accessible book on class differences in American life examines the impact of class status on an individual's participation-or non-participation-in the political process.Focusing on the relative absence of white working-class involvement in many contemporary U.S. liberal and left social movements, David Croteau goes straight to the source: members of the working class and activists in the environmental, peace, women's, and other social movements. Croteau rejects standard assumptions that apathy or simple conservatism explain working-class nonparticipation. Instead, he highlights the role of class-based resources and explores how varying cultural "tools" developed in different classes are more or less helpful in navigating and influencing the existing political environment. Commonly, he finds, the result is a middle-class sense of power and entitlement and a working-class sense of powerlessness and fatalism.Contemplating the future of social movements, he explores how lack of diversity hurts the effectiveness of what have become isolated middle-class movements, and proposes solutions that would increase the future political participation of working people in social movements. Author note: David Croteau, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, is co-author of By Invitation Only: How the Media Limits Political Debate.

Author : Stewart Clegg,Paul Boreham,Geoff Dow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134717101

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Class, Politics and the Economy (Routledge Revivals) by Stewart Clegg,Paul Boreham,Geoff Dow Pdf

This study, first published in 1986, provides a systematic account of the processes and structure of class formation in the major advanced capitalist societies. The focus is on the organizational mechanisms of class cohesion and division, theoretically deriving from a neo-Marxian perspective. Chapters consider the organization and structure of the ‘corporate ruling class’, the middle class and the working class, and are brought together in an overarching analysis of the organization of class in relation to the state and the economy. This title will be of particular interest to students researching the impact of recession on societal structure and the processes of political class struggle, as well as those with a more general interest in the socio-economic theories of Marx, Engels and Weber.

Author : Gangsheng Bao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000586183

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Politics of Democratic Breakdown by Gangsheng Bao Pdf

Democratic breakdown as a political and historic event can impact the fate of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people, by changing the political complexion of a country. This book attempts to systematically explain why democracies collapse. The author's main theoretical argument is based on the examination of two factors. One is political cleavages among voters. These can cause serious political conflicts and may lead to fierce political confrontation and major upheaval at the society level. The other revolves around the types of political and institutional arrangements under democratic regimes. Centrifugal democratic regimes are likely to weaken government capacity or state capacity, rendering governments incapable of effectively resolving political conflicts and, when these two factors come together, political conflicts are less likely to be controlled effectively. These situations can evolve into serious political crises and eventually lead to the collapse of democratic regimes. The empirical research of this book is based on a comparative historical analysis of Germany, Nigeria, Chile, and India. Examining democratic collapses from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, this book will be of interest to those engaged in the study of democracy, Political Science, Comparative Politics, and Political Theory.

Author : Dick Houtman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351528214

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Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science by Dick Houtman Pdf

Dick Houtman argues that neither authoritarianism nor libertarianism can be explained by class or economic background, but rather by position in the cultural domain-- what he calls cultural capital. Although he examines all of the statistics and arguments of the conventional approaches with care and concern, Houtman convincingly demonstrates that the conclusions drawn from earlier studies are untenable at a more general theoretical level. Despite differences among advocates of class explanations, their theories are based on largely identical research findings--in particular a strong negative relationship between education and authoritarianism. Unobstructed by the conclusions these authors felt called upon to draw from the findings themselves, Houtman configures them in a new way. The hypotheses derived from this new theory allow for a systematic, strict, and competitive testing of original theses without ignoring the value of and earlier research. After demonstrating that authoritarianism and libertarianism cannot be explained by class or economic background, Houtman examines the implications of this argument for today's death of class debate in political sociology. He holds it to be unfortunate that the relevance of class to politics is typically addressed by studying the relation between class and voting. This conceals a complex cross-pressure mechanism that causes this relationship to capture the net balance of class voting and its opposite, cultural voting, instead of class voting. He argues that references to a decline in class voting may be basically correct, but dogmatic reliance on the relation between class and voting to prove the point systematically underestimates levels of class voting and produces an exaggerated picture of the decline.

Author : Jacob S. Hacker,Paul Pierson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781416588702

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Winner-Take-All Politics by Jacob S. Hacker,Paul Pierson Pdf

Analyzes the growing divide between the incomes of the wealthy class and those of middle-income Americans, exonerating popular suspects to argue that the nation's political system promotes greed and under-representation.

Author : Stewart Clegg,Paul Boreham,Geoff Dow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 0710208278

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Class, Politics, and the Economy by Stewart Clegg,Paul Boreham,Geoff Dow Pdf

Author : Albert Szymanski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015002390774

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The Capitalist State and the Politics of Class by Albert Szymanski Pdf

Author : Jens Rydgren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415690522

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Class Politics and the Radical Right by Jens Rydgren Pdf

This volume, which brings together the leading scholars within this field, makes a unique contribution by focusing on the relationship between class politics and the radical right

Author : Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192540713

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Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000 by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite Pdf

In late twentieth-century England, inequality was rocketing, yet some have suggested that the politics of class was declining in significance, while others argue that class identities lost little power. Neither interpretation is satisfactory: class remained important to 'ordinary' people's narratives about social change and their own identities throughout the period 1968-2000, but in changing ways. Using self-narratives drawn from a wide range of sources - the raw materials of sociological studies, transcripts from oral history projects, Mass Observation, and autobiography - the book examines class identities and narratives of social change between 1968 and 2000, showing that by the end of the period, class was often seen as an historical identity, related to background and heritage, and that many felt strict class boundaries had blurred quite profoundly since 1945. Class snobberies 'went underground', as many people from all backgrounds began to assert that what was important was authenticity, individuality, and ordinariness. In fact, Sutcliffe-Braithwaite argues that it is more useful to understand the cultural changes of these years through the lens of the decline of deference, which transformed people's attitudes towards class, and towards politics. The study also examines the claim that Thatcher and New Labour wrote class out of politics, arguing that this simple - and highly political - narrative misses important points. Thatcher was driven by political ideology and necessity to try to dismiss the importance of class, while the New Labour project was good at listening to voters - particularly swing voters in marginal seats - and echoing back what they were increasingly saying about the blurring of class lines and the importance of ordinariness. But this did not add up to an abandonment of a majoritarian project, as New Labour reoriented their political project to emphasize using the state to empower the individual.

Author : Marco Z. Garrido
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226643144

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The Patchwork City by Marco Z. Garrido Pdf

In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the privileged, creating the complex geopolitical pattern of Marco Z. Garrido’s “patchwork city.” Garrido documents the fragmentation of Manila into a mélange of spaces defined by class, particularly slums and upper- and middle-class enclaves. He then looks beyond urban fragmentation to delineate its effects on class relations and politics, arguing that the proliferation of these slums and enclaves and their subsequent proximity have intensified class relations. For enclave residents, the proximity of slums is a source of insecurity, compelling them to impose spatial boundaries on slum residents. For slum residents, the regular imposition of these boundaries creates a pervasive sense of discrimination. Class boundaries then sharpen along the housing divide, and the urban poor and middle class emerge not as labor and capital but as squatters and “villagers,” Manila’s name for subdivision residents. Garrido further examines the politicization of this divide with the case of the populist president Joseph Estrada, finding the two sides drawn into contention over not just the right to the city, but the nature of democracy itself. The Patchwork City illuminates how segregation, class relations, and democracy are all intensely connected. It makes clear, ultimately, that class as a social structure is as indispensable to the study of Manila—and of many other cities of the Global South—as race is to the study of American cities.

Author : Geoffrey Evans,James Tilley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191072413

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The New Politics of Class by Geoffrey Evans,James Tilley Pdf

This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which has both reduced class voting and increased class non-voting. This argument is developed in three stages. The first is to show that there has been enormous social continuity in class divisions. The authors demonstrate this using extensive evidence on class and educational inequality, perceptions of inequality, identity and awareness, and political attitudes over more than fifty years. The second stage is to show that there has been enormous political change in response to changing class sizes. Party policies, politicians' rhetoric, and the social composition of political elites have radically altered. Parties offer similar policies, appeal less to specific classes, and are populated by people from more similar backgrounds. Simultaneously the mass media have stopped talking about the politics of class. The third stage is to show that these political changes have had three major consequences. First, as Labour and the Conservatives became more similar, class differences in party preferences disappeared. Second, new parties, most notably UKIP, have taken working class voters from the mainstream parties. Third, and most importantly, the lack of choice offered by the mainstream parties has led to a huge increase in class-based abstention from voting. Working class people have become much less likely to vote. In that sense, Britain appears to have followed the US down a path of working class political exclusion, ultimately undermining the representativeness of our democracy. They conclude with a discussion of the Brexit referendum and the role that working class alienation played in its historic outcome.