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Social Cleavages and Political Change
Jeff ManzaClem Brooks
其他書名
Voter Alignments and U.S. Party Coalitions
出版OUP Oxford, 1999-09-23
主題Political Science / Political Process / Political PartiesPolitical Science / History & TheorySocial Science / Sociology / GeneralHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)History / Modern / 20th Century / General
ISBN01915446209780191544620
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9UBCLiSItUgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.