The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 133-135
ISSN: 1354-0688
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In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 133-135
ISSN: 1354-0688
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 89-111
ISSN: 1354-0688
In: Citizens, Context, and Choice, S. 103-122
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 369-370
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 133-135
ISSN: 1460-3683
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 628-629
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 161-175
ISSN: 1475-6765
Abstract'We are neither Left nor Right, we are out in front' was the mantra of the environmental movement in the 1970s and early 1980s. This research examines the relationship between the traditional left/right economic cleavage and the environmental cleavage in structuring party competition in advanced industrial democracies. It begins by discussing the theoretical rationale for the separation of environmentalism from the traditional economic cleavage, and utilises new expert data to describe the evolution of party positions between 1989 and 2002–2003. An initially strong relationship between party positions on both dimensions in 1989 has strengthened over time. The convergence occurs largely because of changes by Green parties and by the addition of new parties that define themselves on both dimensions. This points to the ability of democratic party systems to integrate a new political cleavage, and the process of integration. However, leftist parties still continue to diverge with respect to how they respond to the environmental cleavage.
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 161-175
ISSN: 0304-4130
In: APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
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In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 628-629
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 41, Heft 7, S. 899-920
ISSN: 0010-4140
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In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 56, Heft 1, S. 76-98
ISSN: 1467-9248
A growing chorus of scholars laments the apparent decline of political participation in America, and the negative implications of this trend for American democracy. This article questions this position – arguing that previous studies misdiagnosed the sources of political change and the consequences of changing norms of citizenship for Americans' political engagement. Citizenship norms are shifting from a pattern of duty-based citizenship to engaged citizenship. Using data from the 2005 'Citizenship, Involvement, Democracy' survey of the Center for Democracy and Civil Society (CDACS) I describe these two faces of citizenship, and trace their impact on political participation. Rather than the erosion of participation, this norm shift is altering and expanding the patterns of political participation in America.
In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 41, Heft 7, S. 899-920
ISSN: 1552-3829
Previous research claims that the number of parties affects the representation of social cleavages in voting behavior, election turnout, patterns of political conflict, and other party system effects. This article argues that research typically counts the quantity of parties and that often the more important property is the quality of party competition—the polarization of political parties within a party system. The author first discusses why polarization is important to study. Second, the author provides a new measurement of party system polarization based on voter perceptions of party positions in the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, which includes more than 50 separate elections from established and developing democracies. Third, the author compares party polarization and party fractionalization as influences on cleavage-based and ideological voting and as predictors of turnout levels. The finding is that party polarization is empirically more important in explaining these outcomes.
In: Electoral Studies, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 274-286
In: Electoral Studies, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 274-286
The concept of party identification is central to our understanding of American electoral behavior. This research builds upon the functional logic of party identification and asks what occurs if citizens become better able to manage the complexities of politics without relying on habitual party cues. Using the data from the American National Election Studies, we track the distribution of party mobilization and cognitive mobilization within the American electorate. Then, we demonstrate the importance of these alternative mobilization patterns by documenting strong differences in the content of political thinking, voting choice, and electoral change. The results suggest a secular transformation in the characteristics of the American public since the classic images of The American Voter, leading to a more differentiated and dealigned electorate. [Copyright 2006 Elsevier Ltd.]