Political Realignment: Economics, Culture, and Electoral Change

ISBN-13: 9780198830986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Russell J. Dalton

Opis

This volume examines how social modernization has changed the framework of political competition for citizens and political parties in affluent democracies, and discusses the electoral and political implications of these trends.

Recenzje

This book should be read by scholars interested in learning about the deeper historical, social, and political forces that are triggering tectonic shifts in many governments party systems.

O autorze

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).