Beschreibung:
Mattei Dogan : Political behaviour and social class in Italy. The relationship between social classes and political parties are analyzed by ecological and survey data. The main aspects considered are : the working class vote in big cities; the working class conservatism; the agricultural political diversity; the stratification of the votes by size of localities; political contrasts in agricultural milieux; influence of the educational level upon the vote; class consciousness and political opinion. Then, an analysis of the shifts in the social bases of communism between 1946 and ]963, explained by the psychological consequences of economic development and by migration as an ideological vector. In conclusion, the formulation of a new concept : social and political ataxia.