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 …

This article shows that religion has been consistently important in predicting voters' party
choices in Britain over time. The relationship between religion and party preference is not …

Electoral behaviour is influenced not only by individual characteristics and interests, but also
by the choices available to voters. In representative democracies, political parties and …

Many social scientists believe that in the Netherlands there has been a decline in the
political impact of traditional class and religious divisions over the last quarter-century. In …

Conventional wisdom on party systems in advanced industrial democracies holds that
modern electorates are dealigned and that social cleavages no longer structure party …

Do the fundamental conflicts in democracies vary? If so, how does this variance affect the
party system? And what determines which conflicts are salient where and when? This …

We investigate trends and cross-national variation in the impact of class, religious, and
gender cleavages on voting behavior in six advanced capitalist democracies in the postwar …

Using a novel method, the paper investigates the influence of social group identities on
attitudes and on voting in a variety of political contexts. Examining the major regions of …

The collapse of the class basis of party choice in Britain since the 1980s has been assumed
to result from the diminishing distinctiveness of social classes in the postindustrial world. We …

This article explores how social cleavages and party strategies interact to shape the nature
of party competition in new democracies. We conceive of political competition on two …