Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-1095-9 • Hardback • May 2006 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
978-0-7391-2926-5 • Paperback • May 2008 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
Oddbjørn Knutsen is professor of political science at the University of Oslo.
Part 1 Part I: Theories and explanations for the decline in class voting
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Social mobility
Chapter 4 New social divisions
Chapter 5 Cognitive mobilization
Chapter 6 The embourgeoisement thesis
Chapter 7 New Politics and middle class radicalism
Chapter 8 The debate about the political orientations of the service class
Chapter 9 Party strategy, class appeal and changes in class structure
Chapter 10 The debate about the persistence or decline of class voting
Part 11 Part II: Class schema and operationalizations of social class
Chapter 12 The Erikson/Goldthorpe class schema
Chapter 13 Operationalization of social class: Occupation variables and construction of class variables in the Eurobarometer data set.
Part 14 Part III: Party systems, party families and the party choice variable
Chapter 15 Voting intention in the Eurobarometer data
Chapter 16 Party families and trends in support for the various parties
Chapter 17 Socialist/non-socialist party choice
Part 18 Part IV: Total class voting
Chapter 19 Introduction
Chapter 20 The strength of the correlation
Chapter 21 Statistical measures for tapping class voting
Chapter 22 Party families
Chapter 23 Patterns within countries and changes over time
Chapter 24 Conclusions: Main patterns regarding changes over time
Part 25 Part V: Overall left-right (socialist/non-socialist) class voting
Chapter 26 Overall left-right voting for the whole period
Chapter 27 Trends in overall left-right class voting
Part 28 Part VI: Traditional class voting: Socialist/non-socialist party choiceand the two class variables
Chapter 29 Introduction: The relevance of traditional class voting in advances industrial democracies and how it is measured
Chapter 30 Empirical analysis: Trends in traditional class voting
Chapter 31 Class voting according to a different treatment of the routinenon-manual group
Part 32 Part VII: Explanations for changes in class voting
Chapter 33 Introduction
Chapter 34 Hypotheses about trends and cross-national patterns of class voting
Chapter 35 Explaining trends in class voting within countries over time
Chapter 36 Explaining the cross-national variations in level of class voting
Chapter 37 Pooled time-series cross sectional analyses
Chapter 38 Part VIII: Conclusions
Part 39 Part IX: Literature
This book is a 'must-read' for scholars wanting to understand class voting in comparative perspective. Knutsen clearly demonstrates that class vote is on the decline in eight major European democracies since the early seventies — no matter what measures are used. The analysis is a major contribution to the social cleavage literature inspired by Lipset and Rokkan, and to comparative politics literature in general.
— Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung