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3. Electoral Cleavages and Socioeconomic Inequality in Germany, 1949–2017

Year: 2021

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: This paper explores the changing relationships between party support, electoral cleavages and socioeconomic inequality in Germany since 1949.We analyze the link between voting behaviors and socioeconomic characteristics of voters.In the 1950s-1970s, the vote for left parties was strongly associated with lower education and lower income voters.Since the 1980s voting for left parties has become associated with higher education voters.In effect, intellectual and economic elites seem to have drifted apart, with high-education elites voting for the left and high-income elites voting for the right.We analyze how this process is related to the occurrence of new parties since 1980 and the recent rise of populism.

Source: Harvard University Press eBooks

DOI: 10.4159/9780674269910-004

Authors: Fabian Kosse, Thomas Pikett

Institutions: BRIQ Institute on Behavior and Inequality, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Paris School of Economics, École des hautes études en sciences sociales

Language: English

Topic: Electoral Systems and Political Participation

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4249628552

FWCI: 11.68

Cites: 7

Cited by: 6

Related to: 10