A History of Political Conflict by Wedodata

Who votes for whom and why? How has the social structure of the electorates of the different political currents and movements evolved in France from 1789 to 2022? Based on an unprecedented work of digitization of electoral and socio-economic data covering more than two centuries, the two researchers Thomas Piketty and Julia Cagé mobilized their teams to digitize the electoral and socio-economic data of the country's 36,000 municipalities since the French Revolution!
For the first time, it becomes possible to rigorously compare the structure of electorates over a long period (all votes since 1789 compared to data on size of the municipality, income, real estate capital, age, owners, qualifications, nationality...). Beyond its historical interest and the new databases it offers, A History of Political Conflict provides a fresh perspective on the crises of the present and their possible outcome. To allow any citizen to explore these unique databases, a complete site offers the exploration of the data of your municipality. You can to compare it to others through dataviz and interactive maps: it was entrusted to Wedodata from A to Z (structure of the databases, UX, design, development).

• Julia Cagé is Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris and the author of "Saving the Media and The Price of Democracy."
• Thomas Piketty is Professor of Economics and Economic History at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and the Paris School of Economics. His books include "A Brief History of Equality", "Capital and Ideology", and the bestselling "Capital in the Twenty-First Century"