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A history of political conflict : elections and social inequalities in France, 1789-2022 /

"Drawing on centuries of data, Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty place today's French politics in historical context. France is divided among bourgeois and distinct urban and rural working-class blocs-historically, an unstable structure. The authors show how inequality breeds tripartite compet...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cagé, Julia (Author), Piketty, Thomas, 1971- (Author)
Other Authors: Rendall, Steven (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.
Subjects:
Voting > Social aspects > France > History.
Right and left (Political science) > France > History.
Government, Resistance to > France > History.
Equality > France > History.
France > Politics and government > 1789-
France > Social conditions.
Vote > Aspect social > France > Histoire.
Résistance au gouvernement > France > Histoire.
France > Politique et gouvernement > 1789-
France > Conditions sociales.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A limited and tumultuous advance toward equality
  • The return of territorial inequalities
  • The metamorphoses of educational inequalities
  • The New Diversity of Origins
  • The general evolution of turnout since 1789
  • The Social Determinants of Voter Turnout in Legislative Elections, 1848-2022
  • Turnout for Presidential Elections and Referenda, 1793-2022
  • Coalitions and Political Families, 1848-2022
  • The First Tripartition, 1848-1910
  • The Difficult Construction of Bipartition, 1910-1992
  • Toward a New Tripartition, 1992-2022?
  • The twofold invention of the presidential election, 1848 and 1965-1995
  • The Metamorphoses of the Presidential Election, 2002-2022
  • The Role of Cleavages in Referenda and the European Question
  • Conclusion.