Farewell to the Leftist Working ClassRoutledge, 5 jul 2017 - 144 pagina's Social conflicts and voting patterns in Western nations indicate a gradual erosion of working-class support for the left, a process that class theory itself cannot adequately explain. Farewell to the Leftist Working Class aims to fill this gap by developing, testing, and confirming an alternative explanation of rightist tendencies among the underprivileged. The authors argue that cultural issues revolving around individual liberty and maintenance of social order have become much more significant since World War II.The obligation to work and strict notions of deservingness have become central to the debate about the welfare state. Indeed, although economic egalitarianism is more typically found among the working class, it is only firmly connected to a universalistic and inclusionary progressive political ideology among the middle class.Farewell to the Leftist Working Class reports cutting-edge research into the withering away of working-class support for the left and the welfare state, drawing mostly on survey data collected in Western Europe, the United States, and other Western countries. |
Inhoudsopgave
2 What Drives Unnatural Voting? A Cultural Explanation for Voting Behavior | |
3 A CrossPressured Working Class? Class Voting Cultural Voting and Issue Salience | |
4 The End of Left and Right? The Transformation of Political Culture 19451998 | |
5 A Decline of Class Voting? Class Voting and Cultural Voting in the Postwar Era 19561990 | |
Judgments on the Rights and Obligations of the Unemployed | |
7 Is WorkingClass Economic Egalitarianism Really that Politically Progressive? Economic Populism Egalitarianism and Political Progressiveness | |
8 Conclusion Class Is Not DeadIt Has Been Buried Alive | |
Measurement of Four Types of Issue Salience | |
Secondary Data Sources | |
About the Authors | |
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Farewell to the Leftist Working Class Dick Houtman,Peter Achterberg,Anton Derks Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2009 |
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analysis anomie authoritarianism authoritarianism/libertarianism become more salient Chapter class and voting class politics class theory class voting class-based economic interests Cronbach’s cultural issue salience cultural participation cultural voting decline of class economic egalitarianism economic egalitarianism/conservatism economic populism EGP class Explained findings GroenLinks Higher professionals income differences increase of cultural Independent variables Inglehart issues are salient issues have become left-libertarian leftist leftist parties leftist-voting working class level of education libertarian Lipset Lower professionals manual workers VII measured Model Netherlands new-leftist Nieuwbeerta 1995 Nonmanual workers Pearson’s percent Petty bourgeoisie political culture postmaterialism PVDA Reference category relationship between class response categories right-authoritarian rightist parties rightist voting rightist-populist salience of class Semi and unskilled Skilled manual workers strongly Table theory of politics trend types of issues unemployed unnatural unskilled manual workers variance Vlaams Belang Vlaams Blok voters voting and cultural voting behavior workfare working-class economic egalitarianism World War II