ISBN10: 0199663998, ISBN13: 9780199663996,
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ISBN10: 0199663998, ISBN13: 9780199663996, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2013]
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ISBN10: 0199663998, ISBN13: 9780199663996, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
[Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2013]
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ISBN10: 0199663998, ISBN13: 9780199663996, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Political Choice Matters investigates the extent to which class and religion influence party choice in contemporary democracies. Rather than the commonly-assumed process in which a weakening of social boundaries leads to declining social divisions in political preferences, this book's primary message is that the supply of choices by parties influences the extent of such divisions: hence, political choice matters. Combining overtime, cross-national data,and multi-level research designs the authors show how policy and programmatic positions adopted by parties provide voters with choice sets that accentuate or diminish the strength of political cleavages. Thebook gives central place to the positions of political parties on left-right, economically redistributive and morally conservative versus social liberal dimensions. Evidence on these positions is obtained primarily from the Comparative Manifesto Project, with a chapter dedicated to elaborating and validating the various implementations of this uniquely valuable source of evidence on party positions. The primary empirical focus includes case studies of 11 Western, Southern, and Central Europeansocieties as well as 'anglo-democracies' including Britain, USA, Canada, and Australia. These detailed analyses of election studies ranging in some cases from the post-war period until the early partof the ...
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