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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction and presentation of the research problems
• Chapter 2. The data set and the party systems of the 18 countries
• Chapter 3 Socio-structural variables and value orientations
• Chapter 4 Party choice and social structure
• Chapter 5 Party Choice and Value Orientations
• Chapter 6 The impact of social structure and value orientations compared
• Chapter 7 Conclusions. .