The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860 1980

The Class Cleavage
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-521-03343-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 664 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1062 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

In an in-depth comparative analysis, Stefano Bartolini studies the history of socialism and working-class politics in Western Europe. While examining the social contexts, organizational structures and political developments of thirteen socialist experiences from the 1880s to the 1980s, he reconstructs the steps through which social conflict was translated and structured into an opposition, as well as how it developed its different organizational and ideological forms, and how it managed more or less successfully to mobilize its reference groups politically. Bartolini provides a comparative framework that structures the wealth of material available on the history of each unit and allows him to assess the relative weight of the complex explanatory factors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartolini, Stefano

Lange, Peter

Bates, Robert H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Industrie- und Technologiepolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures and tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The class cleavage: conceptual and methodological framework; 2. The European Left: size, ideological orientation and organizational cohesion; 3. Industrialization, urbanization and Labor's response; 4. Cultural heterogeneity; 5. Enfranchisement; 6. Organizational structuring and membership mobilization; 7. Political integration; 8. Cleavage structures; 9. The communist split: united and divided Lefts; 10. The macroconstellation of class cleavage structuring; Data appendix; References; Index.