Party Systems and Voter Alignments Revisited - Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

This timely book updates, and takes stock of, Lipset and Rokkan's classic work Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives, an influential work since its publication in 1967. It examines the significance of the original volume for the history of political sociology, and assesses its theoretical and empirical relevance for the study of contemporary elections, voters and parties. Most importantly this volume gives scope to new areas such as consociational democracies, small island states, and newly democratising Eastern and Central European and Third World countries.

List of contents

Introduction, Theoretical and Analytical Developments, Revisited Themes, New Perspectives and Areas. Index.

About the author

Lauri Karvonen is professor of political science at Abo Akademi in Finland.

Summary

A timely study of Lipset and Rokkan's classic work, this book examines the significance of the original volume for the history of political sociology and assesses its theoretical and empirical relevance to the present day.

Product details

• Authors: Lauri Karvonen, Stein Kuhnle
• Assisted by: Lauri Karvonen (Editor), Karvonen Lauri (Editor), Stein Kuhnle (Editor), Kuhnle Stein (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2011
• EAN: 9780415510806
• ISBN: 978-0-415-51080-6
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Political parties and party platforms