Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities: A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020
Amory Gethin, "Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities: A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020"
English | ISBN: 0674248422 | 2021 | 656 pages | PDF | 12 MB
English | ISBN: 0674248422 | 2021 | 656 pages | PDF | 12 MB
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 World War II.
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.
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