A History of Political Conflict: Elections and Social Inequalities in France, 1789-2022

by Thomas Piketty and Julia Cagé

A pioneering history of voting and inequality, drawing on an unprecedented data set covering more than two centuries of sociological findings.

Who votes for whom and why? Julia Cag and Thomas Piketty comb through more than two hundred years of data from some 36,000 French municipalities to show how inequality has shaped the formation of political coalitions, with stark consequences for economic and political development.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674248430
• ISBN13: 9780674248434
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 944 Pages