Political Parties and Partisanship: Social Identity and Individual Attitudes

ISBN-13: 9780415460965 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 234 str.

John Bartle

Opis

This volume provides an up-to-date examination of the conceptualisations, causes, and consequences of partisanship, one of the most fundamental concepts in contemporary political science. Presenting a comprehensive account and assessment of partisanship in comparative empirical research, contributors to this volume not only assess past literature in this area, but also advance current debates. Focussing on three key aspects of partisanship, the volume covers theories of partisanship, the dynamics of partisanship and the behavioural consequences of partisanship in both new and established democracies. Particular features of the volume include:

• up-to-date data on partisanship across a wide range of countries including the new democracies in Eastern Europe
• contributions from well-established and well-recognised scholars in the field
• new theoretical insights presented alongside existing literature

Political Parties and Partisanship will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, political behaviour, sociology and political psychology.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Partisanship, social identity and individual attitudes 2. Deconstructing party identification–and reconstructions beyond 3. Party identification revisited 4. Rethinking partisanship: Some thoughts on a unified theory 5. Partisanship in nine western democracies: Causes and consequences 6. Travel tips for students of electoral choice: The dynamics of partisanship in Britain and elsewhere 7. Individual and contextual origins of durable partisanship 8. Partisanship and system support in established and new democracies 9. Adversarial politics, civic virtues and partisanship in Eastern and Western Europe 10. The stability of partisanship: Evidence from a Russian panel study 11. A spirited defence of party identification against its critics 12. Conclusion: Partisanship and heterogeneity

O autorze

John Bartle, Paolo Bellucci