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Author:   Zsolt Enyedi ,  Kevin Deegan-Krause
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780415853071

ISBN 10:   0415853079
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   07 May 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Structure of Political Competition in Western Europe Zsolt Enyedi and Kevin Deegan-Krause 2. The New Cultural Divide and the Two-Dimensional Political Space in Western Europe Simon Bornschier 3. Elite-Level Conflict Salience and Dimensionality in Western Europe: Concepts and Empirical Findings Heather Stoll 4. Political Cleavages and Socio-economic Context: How Welfare Regimes and Historical Divisions Shape Political Cleavages Andrija Henjak 5. The Development of the Education Cleavage: Denmark as a Critical Case Rune Stubager 6. Exploring the Stabilization of a Political Force: The Social and Attitudinal Basis of Green Parties in the Age of Globalization Martin Dolezal 7. The Regional Cleavage in Western Europe: Can Social Composition, Value Orientations and Territorial Identities Explain the Impact of Region on Party Choice? Oddbjørn Knutsen 8. Structural and Ideological Voting in Age Cohorts Wouter van der Brug 9. Persistent Political Divides, Electoral Volatility and Citizen Involvement: The Freezing Hypothesis in the 2004 European Election Gábor Tóka and Tania Gosselin 10. Models, Measures and Mechanisms: An Agenda for Progress in Cleavage Research Geoffrey Evans 11. Cleavage Research: A Critical Appraisal Mark N. Franklin 12. The Comparative Analysis of Electoral and Partisan Politics Herbert Kitschelt 13. Restructuration of Partisan Politics and the Emergence of a New Cleavage Based on Values Hanspeter Kriesi 14. Agency and the Structure of Party Competition: Alignment, Stability and the Role of Political Elites Kevin Deegan-Krause and Zsolt Enyedi

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Zsolt Enyedi is Associate Professor at the Political Science Department of the Central European University, Budapest. His research interests focus on party politics, comparative government, church and state relations, and political psychology. His articles have appeared in journals like Party Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Democratization and Social Thought and Research. Kevin Deegan-Krause is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He is the author of Elected Affinities: Democracy and Party Competition in Slovakia and the Czech Republic (Stanford University Press, 2006). His work has also appeared in Party Politics, the Journal of Democracy, East European Politics and Societies as well as in newspapers, magazines and his blog, www.pozorblog.com.

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