Social Structure, Value Orientations and Party Choice in Western Europe

• Main Author: Knutsen, Oddbjørn (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
• Subjects: Elections.; Europe-Politics and government.; Democracy.; Political sociology.; Electoral Politics.; European Politics.; Political Sociology.

This book analyses the impact of socio-structural variables, such as social class, religion, urban/rural residence, age and gender, on influencing an individual's voting preferences. There have been major changes in recent decades both to social structure and how social structure determines peo...