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9 - Electoral Realignments in the Atlantic World

from Part III - Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2021

By
Carles Boix
Edited by
Frances McCall Rosenbluth  and
Margaret Weir
Frances McCall Rosenbluth
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
Margaret Weir
Affiliation:
Brown University, Rhode Island
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Summary

The consensual, moderate politics that characterized the golden age of democratic capitalism hasgiven way, in the past decades, to growing public dissatisfaction toward political elites,ideological polarization, and the rise of populist parties. This chapter starts by exploring theeconomic foundations of that remarkable political turnaround. It then describes the historicalsequence through which populist movements took advantage of those changes. And it concludesby discussing potential responses to the new economic and political challenges faced byadvanced economies.

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democratic capitalismtechnological changeICTselections
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Who Gets What?
The New Politics of Insecurity
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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