Class voting is supposedly in severe decline in advanced industrial democracies. However,
this conventional wisdom derives from research using problematic methods and measures …

Recent debates over the relationship between class and voting in democratic capitalist
societies have focused primarily on the question of whether levels of class voting have …

Over the last two decades, many social scientists have argued that the stable class politics of
industrial capitalism is giving way to newer types of social and attitudinal cleavages. Some …

The last few decades has seen a prolonged debate over the nature and importance of social
class as a basis for ideology, class voting and class politics. The prevailing assumption is …

Electoral behaviour is influenced not only by individual characteristics and interests, but also
by the choices available to voters. In representative democracies, political parties and …

In the 1990s, sociologists engaged in a heated controversy about class voting. Although
empirical evidence accumulated, positions remained surprisingly divided. This paper argues …

In many high-income countries today, scholarly interest in the politics of class has coincided
with growing economic inequality, rising support for nonmainstream political parties and …

Class Voting in Western Europe provides a rare, systematic, longitudinal, and cross-national
study of social class and party choice in eight Western European, democratic countries …

We present evidence of a historic realignment in the relationship between class and voting
behavior in US presidential elections in the postwar period. We take advantage of recent …

Many studies of stratification and politics have characterized elections in Western societies
as the platform of'the democratic class struggle'(Anderson and Davidson 1943; Lipset 1960; …