The Decline of Deference is an important book. It paints a fascinating portrait of changing
Canadian values, with intriguing comparisons not only to the United States but to European …

Comparing democratic elections across the globe has, in recent years, become a much
more complicated task. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the resulting changes in …

This essay reviews some recent major research advances in comparative political behavior.
We focus on a few major areas of research: political culture, political participation, value …

The link between elected representatives' views of their role and the type and extent of their
constituency activity is central to political representation, yet it has remained largely …

Interpretations of social and political movements as reflecting social cleavages,
especially'class bases', have formed the backbone of political sociology. Ac cordingly …

The existence and extent of influences arising within spatial contexts is an important issue in
the study of voting behaviour. This paper extends previous Australian research by using the …

Total% 100 100 100 100 N(780)(732)(98)(187) results after minor party preferences have
been distributed. While the proportion of seats held by Labor and the Coalition has …

This note shows that adding an explicit 'No party'option to the party identification question in
the 1993 Australian Election Study increased the level of measured nonidentification …

EVERY society is characterised by a wide variety of social ties. To enable us to make sense
of some contemporary debates, these ties can be classified into three broad categories …

This study compares recruitment and career paths of women politicians in Australia and
Taiwan. It is based on the analysis of biographical materials and interviews with women …