J Manza, M Hout, C Brooks - Annual review of sociology, 1995 - annualreviews.org
Over the last two decades, many social scientists have argued that the stable class politics of industrial capitalism is giving way to newer types of social and attitudinal cleavages. Some …
This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which …
Now, more than ever, people drive the democratic process. What people think of their government and its leaders, how (or whether) they vote, and what they do or say about a …
RS Katz, P Mair - Party politics, 1995 - journals.sagepub.com
Many recent discussions of the decline of party are predicated on the assumption that the Duverger/socialist mass-party model is the only model for parties. We contend that this …
KM Macdonald - The sociology of the professions, 1995 - torrossa.com
The decline and near disappearance of papers on the professions would make it appear that this category of occupations is no longer meaningful to sociologists.(Hall, 1983). The …
From Kosovo to Kabul, the last decade witnessed growing interest in? electoral engineering?. Reformers have sought to achieve either greater government accountability …
Traditionally class has been the key concept for understanding society, enabling analysts to interpret social conflict and predict the course of social development. Critics argue that it is …
MN Franklin, TT Mackie, H Valen - 2009 - books.google.com
Until the last quarter of the 20th Century, Western party systems appeared to be frozen and stability was generally taken to be the central characteristic of individual-level party choice …