First published in French as Clivages politiques et inégalités sociales. Une étude de 50 démocraties (1948-2020) (Paris: Les Éditions du Seuil, 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Political cleavages and social inequalities in fifty democracies, 1948-2020 / A. Gethin, C. Martínez-Toledano, and T. Piketty -- Brahmin left vs merchant right: rising inequality and the changing structure of political conflict in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom, 1948-2020 / T. Piketty -- Electoral cleavages and socioeconomic inequality in Germany, 1949-2017 / F. Kosse and T. Piketty -- Changing party systems, socioeconomic cleavages, and nationalism in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, 1956-2017 / C. Martínez-Toledano and A. Sodano -- Political cleavages, class structures, and the politics of old and new minorities in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, 1963-2019 / A. Gethin -- Historical political cleavages and post-crisis transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1958-2020 / L. Bauluz, A. Gethin, C. Martínez-Toledano, and M. Morgan -- Party system transformation and the structure of political cleavages in Austria, Belgium, the / Netherlands, and Switzerland, 1967-2019 / C. Durrer de la Sota, A. Gethin, and C. Martínez-Toledano -- Political conflict, social inequality, and electoral cleavages in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, 1990-2018 / A. Lindner, F. Novokmet, T. Piketty, and T. Zawisza -- Caste, class, and the changing political representation of social inequalities in India, 1962-2019 / A. Banerjee, A. Gethin, and T. Piketty -- Social inequality and the dynamics of political and ethnolinguistic divides in Pakistan, 1970-2018 / A. Gethin, S. Mehmood, and T. Piketty -- Political cleavages and the representation of social inequalities in Japan, 1953-2017 / A. Gethin -- Democratization and the construction of class cleavages in Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, 1992-2019 / A. Gethin and T. Jenmana -- Inequality, identity, and the structure of political cleavages in South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, 1996-2016 / C. Durrer De La Sota and A. Gethin -- Democracy and the politicization of inequality in Brazil, 1989-2018 / A. Gethin and M. Morgan -- Social inequalities, identity, and the structure of political cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru, 1952-2019 / O. Barrera, A. Leiva, C. Martínez-Toledano and A. Zúñiga-Cordero -- Extreme inequality, elite transformation, and the changing structure of political cleavages in South Africa, 1994-2019 / A. Gethin -- Social inequalities and the politicization of ethnic cleavages in Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, 1999-2019 / J. Baleyte, A. Gethin, Y. Govind and T. Piketty -- Inequality, identity, and the long-run evolution of political cleavages in Israel 1949-2019 / Y. Berman -- Political cleavages and social inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990-2019 / L. Assouad, A. Gethin, T. Piketty, and J. Uraz.

"Who votes for whom and why? Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities provides the most comprehensive empirical answer to that question. The authors analyze seventy-five years of survey data from fifty democracies, revealing the socioeconomic correlates of partisanship, inequality, nationalism, and identity politics around the world"--