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Class is not dead—it has been buried alive: class voting and cultural voting in postwar western societies (1956-1990) / Waal, Jeroen van der; Achterberg, Peter; Houtman, Dick

Waal, Jeroen van der	Journal Article
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2007.

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By means of a reanalysis of the most relevant data source-the International Social Mobility and Politics File-this article criticizes the newly grown consensus in political sociology that class voting has declined since World War II. An increase in crosscutting cultural voting, rooted in educational differences rather than a decline in class voting, proves responsible for the decline of traditional class-party alignments. Moreover, income differences have not become less but more consequential for voting behavior during this period. It is concluded that the new consensus has been built on quicksand. Class is not dead-it has been buried alive under the increasing weight of cultural voting, systematically misinterpreted as a decline in class voting because of the widespread application of the so-called Alford index

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Political Change ; Death of Class Debate ; Old Versus New Politics ; Class Analysis ; Realignment Versus Dealignment

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Down but not out: union resurgence and segmented neocorporatism in Argentina (2003-2007) / Etchemendy, Sebastián; Collier, Ruth Berins

Etchemendy, Sebastián	Journal Article
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2007.

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The shift from state-led import-substitution industrialization to more market-oriented economic models often has the result of shrinking and demobilizing the labor movement. Yet, evidence from Argentina suggests that a subsequent resurgence of even a downsized labor movement may occur and furthermore that a type of "segmented neocorporatism" may be established in the new economic context. We argue that the establishment of this new form of interest intermediation is driven by economic and political factors that are both immediate and longer term. In addition to the short-term condition of the labor market and the political strategy of the government in power, of longer-term importance are structural and institutional conditions that derive from the earlier process of market reform, specifically the nature of sectoral shifts in the economy and the degree of labor law deregulation affecting the "associational power" of unions.

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Argentina ; Neocorporatism ; Labor Unions

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