CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Henjak, Andrija |
|---|---|
| Title | Socioeconomic Change, Changing Political Cleavages and the Emergence of New Parties |
| Summary | This dissertation analyzes how social and economic changes, brought about by the process of deindustrialization, affected developments in patterns of political divisions in advanced industrial democracies. The principal argument of this dissertation is that social and economic changes in advanced industrial societies linked to deindustrialization produced a social structure that is by and large more complex than that of classic industrial societies before or just after the Second World War. The complexity of post-industrial societies can be described as ‘greater fragmentation’, which is caused by the crosscutting of a large number of social characteristics that define one’s position in post-industrial societies. In short, fragmentation essentially means that both middle and working classes in post-industrial societies do not represent a unified actor to the same extent that they did in classic industrial societies. In the middle-class there is a new sizable group of professionals, and in the working-class there is a division between exposure to market risk and sector of employment. Such fragmented social structure made it difficult for established parties of the left and right to cover the whole newly emerged political space, so the emergence of new parties of the new left and the new right was inevitable. What exact shape these new competitors took in each country depended upon the type of welfare regime, models of capitalism and the policies that governments implemented in response to the process of deindustrialization. |
| Supervisor | Gabor Toka |
| Department | Political Science PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/pphhea01.pdf |
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