{"product_id":"a-history-of-political-conflict-elections-and-social-inequalities-in-france-1789-2022-9780674248434","title":"A History of Political Conflict: Elections and Social Inequalities in France, 1789-2022","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA pioneering history of voting and inequality, drawing on an unprecedented data set covering more than two centuries of sociological findings.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWho votes for whom and why? Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty comb through more than two hundred years of data from some 36,000 French municipalities to show how inequality has shaped the formation of political coalitions, with stark consequences for economic and political development. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCagé and Piketty argue that today's tripartite division of French political life--a competition among a bourgeois central bloc and distinct factions of the urban and rural working classes--has a precise, and revealing, historical analogue. To understand contemporary tensions, we can look to the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, another period when runaway economic inequality produced such a three-way rivalry. Cagé and Piketty show that tripartition has always been unstable, whereas the binary political conflict enabled by relative equality and typical of most of the twentieth century facilitated social and economic progress. Comparing these configurations over time helps us envisage possible trajectories for the French political system in the coming decades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith its many changes in governmental structure since 1789, France is an ideal laboratory for studying the vicissitudes of modern political life in general, and electoral democracy in particular. Using France as a model, \u003ci\u003eA History of Political Conflict\u003c\/i\u003e offers a powerful framework for understanding the complex project of building and sustaining democratic majorities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCagé, Julia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Julia Cagé is Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris and the author of \u003ci\u003eSaving the Media\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePiketty, Thomas:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Thomas Piketty is Professor of Economics and Economic History at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and the Paris School of Economics. His books include \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Equality, Capital and Ideology, \u003c\/i\u003e and the bestselling \u003ci\u003eCapital in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Belknap Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51572443775250,"sku":"9780674248434","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e0f6d497-732b-4eef-907f-e47180a35090.jpg?v=1755861793","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-history-of-political-conflict-elections-and-social-inequalities-in-france-1789-2022-9780674248434","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}