Previous studies of Russia search for party identification in an all-or-nothing fashion. We
adopt an alternative approach to studying the emergence of mass partisanship in new …

This book is the result of an international conference called “Party Systems and Voter
Alignments: Thirty Years After” which was held in Bergen, Norway, on 24–27 April 1997. The …

Two theoretical perspectives on the connection between religion and politics are applied to
Great Britain. Data from the 1991 and 1992 waves of the British Household Panel Study …

During the year 2000 I was involved in an mteresting debate about the nature and purpose
of sociology textbooks.* My argument was that textbooks in sociology look and feel the …

Dramatic changes in society, technology and culture have transformed the relationship
between political parties, the media, and the individual voter over the last fifty years. The …

Singapore is an antipolis in which unquestionable political consensus is maintained by
authoritarian means. It is the actuality of the possible development of western democracies …

En este trabajo se estudia la evolución del voto clasista (o voto de clase) en las elecciones
generales españolas celebradas entre 1986 y 2000. El argumento se presenta en seis …

Contributing a chapter on the rise of the campaign professional raises two problems. The
first difficulty is that it is far from clear whether 'campaign professionals' really exist in British …

Structural, cultural, psychological and materialist theories support the proposition that
political cohesion and division in ethnic groups are a function of ethnic cohesion and …

This article explores the enduring relevance (or otherwise) of class to social democracy
through comparative analysis of the British Labour Party and the French Socialist Party (PS …