POLI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Marine Le Pen, Emmanuel Macron, François Fillon
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Party formation (late 19th/early 20th c): class conflict. Parties went mainstream when everyone got the right to vote. Parties with broad political ideologies, philosophy, conflict, etc. Socioeconomic divide between the workers (___) and the capitalists (____). Labor laws, minimum wages, entering the middle class. New middle class: not so easily divided between workers and capitalists. Rise of cultural issues (women"s rights, immigration, etc. Part of the reason they were so angry about immigration is because they felt it was taking jobs away from the native working class. Right wing parties called for left wing policies to protect these groups. No clean cut between the two wings. Preserving the environment doesn"t have anything to do with class cleavage. There are more right winged protectionists lately. Being part of one wing does not mean that you are strictly that wing; there is a lot of overlap between the left and right parties.
