Social structure and party choice in western Europe: a comparative longitudinal study

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Party Choice and Social Structure: Theory, the Party Choice Variable and Statistical Measures -- 1.1 Introduction: the study of the relationship between party choice and social structure -- 1.2 Review of comparative literature on social structure and party choice -- 1.3 Grouping of parties in party families -- 1.4 The party choice variable -- 1.5 Socialist/non-socialist party choice -- 1.6 Statistical measures and the analysis of changes over time -- 1.7 The plan for the book and the organisation of the empirical analyses -- 2 Religious Denomination -- 2.1 Introduction: the two faces of the religious cleavage -- 2.2 Religious denominations -- 2.3 Religious denomination and party choice -- 2.4 Socialist/non-socialist party choice -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 Church Religiosity and Church Attendance -- 3.1 Introduction: church religiosity in a comparative perspective -- 3.2 Church religiosity and party choice -- 3.3 Party choice and church attendance within the different religious denominations in religiously mixed countries -- 3.4 Socialist/non-socialist party choice -- 3.5 Conclusions -- 4 Urban-Rural Residence -- 4.1 Introduction: the urban-rural cleavage, or urban-rural contrasts -- 4.2 Operationalisation of urban-rural residence -- 4.3 Urban-rural residence and party choice -- 4.4 Socialist/non-socialist party choice -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5 Education -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The education variable in the surveys and changes in education levels in a comparative perspective -- 5.3 Education and party choice -- 5.4 Socialist/non-socialist party choice -- 5.5 Conclusions -- 6 Gender -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Gender and party choice -- 6.3 Socialist/non-socialist party choice -- 6.4 Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion: the Decline, Convergence and Transformation of Cleavage Politics.