The Great Class Shift: How New Social Class Structures are Redefining Western Politics

ISBN-13: 9780367342104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 160 str.

Thibault Muzergues

Opis

This thought-provoking book offers a new global approach to understand how four social class structures have rocked our political systems.

Spis treści

Foreword by Guy Verhofstadt.  Introduction  Part I: Class Shifting: How Four Social Classes came to Redefine our Electoral Landscapes  1. In the Beginning Was the Creative Class  2. The Suburban (and Provincial) Middle Class: A pro-system rebellion  3. The New Minority, or the Revolt of the White Working-class  4. The Millennials, or the Left’s New Rebels  Part II: Falling Apart or Coming Together? Coalition Dilemmas for Election Victory in a Four-class System  5. France and the United States: From new fault lines to new coalitions  6. North-Western Europe: Divergent scenarios in the economic heart of Europe  7. Central and Eastern Europe: Power to the (white) working class  8. Southern Europe: The Heart of the Millennial Challenge.  Conclusion

O autorze

Thibault Muzergues is Europe Program Director at the International Republican Institute’s Europe Regional Office, Austria.