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"A specter is haunting the long-standing class theory of politics - the specter of the rightist working class. Social conflicts and voting patterns in Western nations indicate a gradual erosion of working-class support for the left, a process that class theory itself cannot adequately explain. Farewell to the Leftist Working Class aims to fill this gap by developing, testing, and confirming an alternative explanation of rightist tendencies among the underprivileged."

"Farewell to the Leftist Working Class reports cutting-edge research into the withering away of working-class support for the left and the welfare state, drawing mostly on survey data collected in Western Europe, the United States, and other Western countries. Although it Is based on large-scale quantitative analyses of survey data, great pains have been taken to safeguard accessibility and to present the material in as reader-friendly a way as possible."--Jacket

"The authors challenge the widely held assumption that weakening working-class support for leftist parties indicates first of all a decline in class voting and a breakdown of class politics. Instead, they argue, cultural issues that revolve around individual liberty and maintenance of social order have become much more significant since World War II."

The specter of the rightist working class

What drives unnatural voting? A cultural explanation for voting behavior

A cross-pressured working class? Class voting, cultural voting, and issue salience

The end of left and right? The transformation of political culture (1945-1998)

A decline of class voting? Class voting and cultural voting in the postwar era (1956-1990) (with Jeroen van der Waal)

The working class and the welfare state: judgments on the rights and obligations of the unemployed

Is working-class economic egalitarianism really that politically progressive? Economic, populism, egalitarianism, and political progressiveness

Conclusion : class is not dead

it has been buried alive.

Working class > Political activity.