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Piketty references the Indian caste system to classify this new ‘multiple-elite party system’ as the Brahmin left (representing the intellectual elite) and the merchant right (representing the business elite). In this new version of the left, low education and low income voters feel abandoned, contributing to populism’s growth.
According to Piketty, the emergence of the Brahmin left has occurred because of globalization, migration and increased education—all of which have created new dimensions of inequality and weakened previous class-based coalitions. Piketty is unsure about the stability of multiple-elite party systems, but highlights the difficulty in uniting low-education, low-income voters from all origins within the same party.
The findings also pose important questions for India. Unlike the US, Britain and France, India has relatively little exposure to migration, but is there a similar ‘multiple-elite party system’ emerging?
Also read: Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right: Rising Inequality & the Changing Structure of Political Conflict (Evidence from France, Britain and the US, 1948-2017)
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