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Este artigo apresenta uma inflexão na literatura acadêmica desafiadora do consenso, firmado nas décadas de 1980 e 1990, em torno da ideia da perda de importância relativa das clivagens sociais e, em especial, classistas, enquanto variável explicativa do comportamento eleitoral em democracias avançadas. O texto apresenta e discute amostra de recentes pesquisas internacionais que convergem na revalorização da classe social enquanto fonte de orientação do voto e sublinha a importância atribuída por essa nova literatura à questão metodológica e ao reexame da informação empírica coletada nas últimas décadas sobre o voto, destacando alguns dos resultados obtidos que sugerem uma nova compreensão da relação entre classe e sufrágio nas democracias maduras.
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This article aims to provide an approach on a possible inflexion ongoing in contemporary electoral comparative studies, challenging the consensus reached in the 1980s and 1990s around the idea of the loss of the relative importance of social divisions and, in particular, classists, as the explanatory variable of electoral behavior in advanced democracies. In that sense, the text presents and discusses samples of recent international studies that converge on the revaluation of social class as a source of guidance on vote. It is pointed out the attributed importance by this new literature on the methodologic question and in the review of empirical information collected in the last decades by vote, especially some of the results that suggest a new understanding of the relationship between class and suffrage in mature democracies.
Key-words: clivages; electoral studies; political behavior; vote; social class
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