Who Speaks for the Poor?

Who Speaks for the Poor?

Electoral Geography, Party Entry, and Representation

Jusko, Karen Long (Stanford University, California)

Cambridge University Press

08/2017

216

Dura

Inglês

9781108419888

15 a 20 dias

Who Speaks for the Poor? offers a new account of cross-national differences in the political and partisan representation of low-income voters, focusing attention on the electoral geography of income and how it changed over time. Comparative analysis sheds light on the absence of a low-income people's party in the USA.
1. Who speaks for the poor?; 2. How electoral geography matters; 3. New parties and the changing electoral geography of contemporary democracies, 1880-2000; 4. The populists and 'third-party men' in America; 5. Canadian electoral geography and the strategic entry of the CCF and social credit; 6. The implications of electoral geography for British Labour; 7. The Swedish Social Democratic Party, and the long-term implications of electoral reform; 8. 'It didn't happen here': the general implications of electoral geography for the political representation of the poor.
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