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Familiarising the reader with particular aspects of political behaviour and the methodologies of study in this field, this volume examines the role of the citizen in contemporary politics, based on essays from some of the world's leading researchers into political behaviour.

Parties, party choice, and partisanship in East Asia / Russell J. Dalton, Yun-han Chu, and Doh Chull Shin -- Electoral systems and party systems / Benjamin Reilly -- The patterns of party alignment / Russell J. Dalton and Aiji Tanaka -- The development of partisanship / Emile C. J. Sheng -- Social structure and party support / Ian McAllister -- Value cleavages, issues, and partisanship / Aie-Rie Lee -- Partisanship and citizen politics / Yun-han Chu and Min-hua Huang -- Partisanship and democratization / Doh Chull Shin and Rollin F. Tusalem -- Citizens, political parties, and democratic development / Doh Chull Shin, Russell J. Dalton, and Yun-han Chu

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.