Partisan Families: The Social Logic of Bounded Partisanship in Germany and Britain

ISBN-13: 9780521874403 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 224 str.

Alan S. Zuckerman; Josip Dasovic; Jennifer Fitzgerald

Opis

People decide about political parties by taking into account the preferences, values, expectations, and perceptions of their family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors. As most persons live with others, members of their households influence each other's political decisions. How and what they think about politics and what they do are the outcomes of social processes. Analyzing data from extensive German and British household surveys, this book shows that wives and husbands influence each other; young adults influence their parents, especially their mothers. Wives and mothers sit at the center of households: their partisanship influences the partisanship of everyone else, and the others affect them.

Recenzje

'The analyses are varied and rigourous, and the data well situated for the authors' research goals. … The analyses and conclusions in Partisan Families will push scholarly thinking on partisanship and its social dimensions in important new directions, in Britain, Germany and beyond.' Journal of Politics

Spis treści

1. The social logic of partisanship: a theoretical excursion; 2. Bounded partisanship in Germany and Britain; 3. A multivariate analysis of partisan support, preference, and constancy; 4. Bounded partisanship in intimate social units: husbands, wives, and domestic partners; 5. Bounded partisanship in intimate social units: German and British parents and children; 6. Partisan constancy and partisan families: turnout and vote choice in recent British elections.