Social Cleavages and Political Change

Voter Alignment and U.S. Party Coalitions
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-829492-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manza, Jeff

Brooks, Clem

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Methodenlehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: The Sociological Tradition in Political Behaviour Research

- 1: Social Cleavages and American Politics

- 3: Class

- 4: Religion

- 5: Gender

- 6: Race and the Social Bases of Voter Alignments

- 7: Party Coalitions

- 8: Social Cleavages in the 1996 Elections

- 9: Third Party Candidates

- 10: Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

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