The Democratic Class StruggleFirst published in 1983. This book combines a case study of class relations, politics and voting in Sweden with a comparative analysis of distributive conflicts and politics in eighteen OECD countries. Its underlying theoretical theme is the development of class relations in free-enterprise or capitalise democracies. This title will be of interest to students of history and politics. |
Contents
Workingclass mobilization | |
Electoral participation | |
Social roots of party preferences | |
Electoral geography | |
Voters on the move | |
The politics of industrial conflict | |
Social policy | |
After the historical compromise | |
Bibliography | |
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Allardt analysis bourgeois parties capital capitalist democracies cent Centre Party changes Chapter citizens cleavages Communists Conservatives constituencies corporatism corporatist decline decrease dimension distribution of power distributive processes effects election electoral participation electoral support employment environment Ernst Wigforss extent Figure Finland Gothenburg historical compromise important increase indicate industrial communes industrial conflict inequality influence institutional issues labour market labour movement labour parties left parties level of unionization Liberals major Malmö metropolitan centres middle class mobilization nuclear occupational organizations party choice party preferences Party Sympathy Surveys pattern percentage pluralist industrial model postwar period power resources primarily proportion relatively Riksdag role salaried employees sector Social Democratic government Social Democratic Party social group social policy socialist bloc socialist parties socialist voting socio-economic strata Stockholm strategies structure Sweden Swedish politics Table voting turnout wage-earners Walter Korpi welfare West Germany Western countries Western nations women workers working-class voters