"There has been a prolonged debate over the importance of social class as a basis for political partisanship and ideological conflict in advanced industrial societies.". "The End of Class Politics? provides an authoritative combination of state-of-the-art analysis, broad comparative perspective, and detailed case studies of this issue which reshapes current knowledge of the relationship between social class and voting. Leading scholars from the United States, Great Britain, and Europe examine assumptions about the declining importance of class and show them to be unfounded."--BOOK JACKET.