Farewell to the leftist working class 1st Edition by Dick Houtman, Peter Achterberg, Anton Derks ISBN 1412849535 9781412849531

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ISBN 10: 1412849535

ISBN 13: 9781412849531 

Author: Dick Houtman, Peter Achterberg, Anton Derks 

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.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1. The Specter of the Rightist Working Class
Chapter 2. What Drives “Unnatural” Voting? A Cultural Explanation for Voting Behavior
Chapter 3. A Cross-Pressured Working Class? Class Voting, Cultural Voting, and Issue Salience
Chapter 4. The End of Left and Right? The Transformation of Political Culture
Chapter 5. A Decline of Class Voting? Class Voting and Cultural Voting in the Postwar Era
Chapter 6. The Working Class and the Welfare State: Judgments on the Rights and Obligations of the Unemployed
Chapter 7. Is Working-Class Economic Egalitarianism Really that Politically Progressive? Economic Populism, Egalitarianism, and Political Progressiveness
Chapter 8. Conclusion: Class Is Not Dead-It Has Been Buried Alive

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