The democratic class struggle revisited.
This paper attempts to resolve scholarly disagreements concerning how class conflicts are manifested in contemporary welfare states. An analytical distinction is made between social (tensions/antagonism between classes) and political (class-based differences in political preferences) manifestations...
| Publicado en: | Acta Sociologica (Sage Publications, Ltd.) Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 311 - 329 |
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