Social Cleavages and Political Change: Voter Alignments and U.S. Party Coalitions

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OUP Oxford, 1999 M09 23 - 354 páginas
What social groups support which political party, and how that support has changed over time, are central questions in the sociology of political behaviour. This study provides the first systematic book-length reassessment and restatement of the sociological approach to American politics in more than 20 years. It challenges widespread arguments that the importance of social cleavages have declined precipitously in recent years in the face of post-industrial social and economic changes. The book reconceptualizes the concept of social cleavages and focus on four major cleavages in American society: class, religion, gender, and race, arguing a that a number of important changes in the alignments of the groups making up these four cleavages have occurred. The book examines the implications of these changes for the Democratic and Republican Parties. The findings of the book are examined in light of the central dilemmas facing the two major parties in the contemporary political environment.
 

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Introduction
1
The Sociological Tradition in Political Behavior Research
9
Republican Parties among votingage respondents 19521996 29 2880 65
29
Social Cleavages and American Politics
31
Class
49
Religion
85
cleavage under models 1 4 and 6 19601992
110
Gender
128
elections 19601992
171
Party Coalitions
176
Social Cleavages in the 1996 Election
201
Third Party Candidates
217
Conclusion
231
Notes
243
Bibliography
306
Index
335

Race and the Social Bases of Voter Alignments
155

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Jeff Manza is Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University Clem Brooks is Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington

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