Political Realignment: Economics, Culture, and Electoral Change by Dalton, Russell J.

Political Realignment: Economics, Culture, and Electoral Change (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198830986)

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Political Realignment: Economics, Culture, and Electoral Change by Dalton, Russell J.

Political Realignment: Economics, Culture, and Electoral Change

$57.00
Political Realignment: Economics, Culture, and Electoral Change by Dalton, Russell J.

Political Realignment: Economics, Culture, and Electoral Change

$57.00
Format: Hardcover
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The process of electoral change is accelerating in contemporary democracies, and this book explains why. The emergence of Green parties in the 1980s and recent far right parties, Brexit and Trump's 2016 victory are parts of this overall process.

Political Realignment tracks the evolution of citizen and elite opinions on economic and cultural issues from the 1970s to the 2010s-and the impact of these changes on electoral politics and public policy. Citizen positions on these cleavages have realigned over time, producing a similar realignment in the structure of the party systems to represent these demands. Economic issues remain important, now joined by divisions on cultural issues as a backlash to modernization. Assembling an unprecedented time series of empirical evidence, this study explains the new forces of elector change in both Europe and the United States.

Author: Russell J. Dalton
ISBN-10: 019883098X
ISBN-13: 9780198830986
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/27/2018
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d

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Russell Dalton is Research Professor of Political Science at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at UC Irvine. Dalton has been awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship, Scholar-in-Residence at the Barbra Streisand Center, German Marshall Fund Research Fellowship, and the POSCO Fellowship at the East West Center in Hawaii. His research focuses on the role of citizens in the political process. Previous publications include The Participation Gap (OUP, 2017), Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy (OUP, 2011), and Citizens, Context and Choice: How Context Shapes Citizens' Electoral Choices (OUP, 2011).

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