Political Choice Matters —— Explaining the Strength of Class and Religious Cleavages in Cross-National Perspective

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ISBN: 9780199663996 出版年：2013 页码：471 Oxford University Press

PART I: MODELS, MEASUREMENT AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS 1. Explaining Cleavage Strength: The Role of Party Positions 2. Measuring Party Positions 3. Examining The Impact of Party Positions and Class Voting in 15 Western Democracies: A Pooled Analysis PART II: THE CASE STUDIES Anglo-Saxon Democracies 4. Ideological Convergence and the Decline of Class Voting in Britain 5. The United States: Still the Politics of Diversity 6. The Declining Impact of Class on the Vote in Australia: Testing Competing Explanations 7. The Class-Party Relationship in Canada, 1965- 2004 Mainland Europe 8. Enduring Divisions and New Dimensions: Class Voting in Denmark 9. The Political Evolution of Class and Religion: An Interpretation for the Netherlands 1971-2006 10. Political Change and Cleavage Voting in France: Class, Religion, Political Appeals, and Voter Alignments (1962-2007) 11. Social Divisions and Political Choices in Germany, East and West, 1980-2006 12. Class and Religious Voting in Italy: The Rise of PolicyResponsiveness Recent Democracies 13. Do Social Divisions Explain Political Choices? The Case of Poland 14. Social Class, Religiosity, and Vote Choice in Spain, 1979-2008 PART III: CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS 15. The Importance of Political Choice and Other Lessons Learned Bibliography Index