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Class Voting in Western Europe provides a rare, systematic,
longitudinal, and cross-national study of social class and party
choice in eight Western European, democratic countries: Belgium,
Britain, Denmark, France, (West) Germany, Ireland, Italy, and the
Netherlands. This highly accessible and engaging work is based on
data from the Eurobarometer surveys, conducted from 1975-1997.
Class Voting in Western Europe outlines the theories of changes in
class voting and provides and empirical analysis of class voting.
This study differentiates between traditional class voting, total
class voting, and overall left-right voting. Knutsen's thorough
study will provide a new, straightforward understanding of social
class and party choice to anyone interested in the complex
relationship between modern society and politics.
Class Voting in Western Europe provides a rare, systematic,
longitudinal, and cross-national study of social class and party
choice in eight Western European, democratic countries: Belgium,
Britain, Denmark, France, (West) Germany, Ireland, Italy, and the
Netherlands. This highly accessible and engaging work is based on
data from the Eurobarometer surveys, conducted from 1975-1997.
Class Voting in Western Europe outlines the theories of changes in
class voting and provides and empirical analysis of class voting.
This study differentiates between traditional class voting, total
class voting, and overall left-right voting. Knutsen's thorough
study will provide a new, straightforward understanding of social
class and party choice to anyone interested in the complex
relationship between modern society and politics.
This book analyses the impact of socio-structural variables, such
as social class, religion, urban/rural residence, age and gender,
on influencing an individual's voting preferences. There have been
major changes in recent decades both to social structure and how
social structure determines people's voting behaviour. There has
also been a shift in value orientations, for example from religious
to secular values and from more authoritarian to libertarian
values. The author addresses the questions: How do social structure
and value orientations influence party choice in advanced
industrial democracies?; To what extent is the impact of social
structure on party choice transmitted via value orientations?; To
what extent is the impact of value orientations on party choice
causal effects when controlled for the prior structural variables?
The book will be of use to advanced students and scholars in the
fields of comparative politics, electoral politics and political
sociology.
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