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A Modest Proposal For Republicans: Use The Word "Class"
Scott Alexander suggests Republicans should focus on fighting cultural classism to broaden their appeal and unite their base.
23 min read 3,524 words
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Book Review: Fussell On Class
Scott Alexander reviews Paul Fussell's 1983 book 'Class', which analyzes America's informal class structure and its impact on behavior and preferences.
37 min read 5,591 words
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A signaling theory of class x politics interaction
Scott proposes that class-based attitudes toward wealth redistribution are driven by status signaling rather than "last place aversion," where lower middle class people oppose redistribution to differentiate themselves from the poor, while upper middle class people support it to differentiate themselves from the lower middle class.
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