Agency and the structure of party competition: Alignment, stability and the role of political elites

West European Politics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 686-710

  Deegan Krause, Kevin ^a   Enyedi, Zsolt ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; ELECTION; ELECTORAL SYSTEM; ELITE POLITICS; PARTY POLITICS; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77952515493     PISSN: 01402382     EISSN: 17439655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01402381003654742     Document Type: Article

References (80)

1. Alford, John R., Carolyn L. Funk, and John R. Hibbin (2005). 'Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted?', American Political Science Review, 99:2, 153-67.
2. Archer, Margaret S. (2003). Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Barr, Robert R. (2009). 'Populists, Outsiders and Anti-Establishment Politics', Party Politics, 15:1, 29-48.
4. Bartolini, Stefano, and Peter Mair (1990). Identity, Competition, and Electoral Availability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
5. Berelson, Bernard R, Paul F. Lazarsfeld, and William N. McPhee (1954). Voting: A Study of Opinion Formation in a Presidential Election. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
6. Bornschier, Simon (2010). 'The New Cultural Divide and the Two-Dimensional Political Space in Western Europe', West European Politics, 33:3, 419-44.
7. Brubaker, Rogers, Mara Loveman, and Peter Stamatov (2004). 'Ethnicity as Cognition', Theory and Society, 33:1, 31-64.
8. Campbell, Angus, Philip E. Converse, and Warren E. Miller (1960). The American Voter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
9. Carlsnaes, Walter (1992). 'The Agency-Structure Problem in Foreign Policy Analysis', International Studies Quarterly, 36:3, 245-70.
10. Carsey, Thomas M., and Geoffrey C. Layman (2006). 'Changing Sides or Changing Minds? Party Conversion, Issue Conversion, and Partisan Change on the Abortion Issue', American Journal of Political Science, 50:2, 464-77.
11. Cohen, Bernard C. (1963). The Press and Foreign Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
12. Collier, Ruth Berins (1991). Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
13. Colomer, Josep M., and Riccardo Puglisi (2005). 'Cleavages, Issues and Parties: A Critical Overview of the Literature', European Political Science, 4:4, 502-20.
14. Dalton, Russell J., and Martin P. Wattenberg (2000). Parties without Partisans. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
15. David, Paul A. (1985). 'Clio and the Economics of QWERTY', The American Economic Review, 75:2, 332-37.
16. Deegan-Krause, Kevin (2006). Elected Affinities. Democracies and Party Competition in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
17. Deegan-Krause, Kevin (2007). 'New Dimensions of Political Cleavage', in Russell J. Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Political Behaviour. Oxford: Oxford University Press, chapter 28.
18. Deegan-Krause, Kevin, and Tim Haughton (2009). 'Toward a More Useful Conceptualization of Populism: Types and Degrees of Populist Appeals in the Case of Slovakia', Politics & Policy, 37:4, 821-41.
19. Dessler, David (1989). 'What's at Stake in the Agent-Structure Debate?', International Organization, 43:3, 441-73.
20. Dolezal, Martin (2010). 'Exploring the Stabilization of a Political Force: The Social and Attitudinal Basis of Green Parties in the Age of Globalization', West European Politics, 33:3, 534-52.
21. Elff, Martin (2005). 'Ideology, Social Cleavages and Voting Behaviour: Party Manifestos and Voter Responses in European Countries in the Postwar Era', ECPR General Conference, Budapest.
22. Enyedi, Zsolt (2000). 'Clerical and Religious Polarization in Hungary', in David Broughton and Hans-Martien ten Napel (eds.), Religion and Mass Electoral Behaviour in Europe. London: Routledge, 157-76.
23. Enyedi, Zsolt (2005). 'The Role of Agency in Cleavage Formation', European Journal of Political Research, 44:5, 697-720.
24. Enyedi, Zsolt (2008). 'The Social and Attitudinal Basis of Political Parties: Cleavage Politics Revisited', European Review, 16:3, 287-304.
25. Evans, Geoffrey (1999). The End of Class Politics? Class Voting in Comparative Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
26. Evans, Geoffrey (2010). 'Models, Measures and Mechanisms: An Agenda for Progress in Cleavage Research', West European Politics, 33:3, 634-47.
27. Fearon, James D., and David D. Laitin (2003). 'Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity', International Organization, 54:4, 845-77.
28. Flanagan, Scott C. (1987). 'Value Change in Industrial Societies', American Political Science Review, 81:4, 1303-19.
29. Franklin, Mark N. (2010). 'Cleavage Research: A Critical Appraisal', West European Politics, 33:3, 648-58.
30. Giddens, Anthony. (1986). The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
31. Gimpel, James G., and Wendy K. Tam Cho (2004). 'The Persistence of White Ethnicity in New England Politics', Political Geography, 23:8, 987-1008.
32. Hay, Colin (1995). 'Structure and Agency', in David Marsh and Gerry Stoker (eds), Theory and Methods in Political Science. New York: St. Martin's Press, 271-291.
33. Henjak, Andrija (2010). 'Political Cleavages and Socio-economic Context: How Welfare Regimes and Historical Divisions Shape Political Cleavages', West European Politics, 33:3, 474-504.
34. Hirschman, Albert O. (1970). Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States. Boston: Harvard University Press.
35. Hout, Michael, and Claude S. Fischer (2002). 'Explaining the Rise of Americans with No Religious Preference: Generations and Politics', American Sociological Review, 67:2, 165-190.
36. Huddy, Leonie (2003). 'Group Identity and Political Cohesion', in Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 511-58.
37. Inglehart, Ronald (1977). The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles among Western Publics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
38. Inglehart, Ronald (1984). 'The Changing Structure of Political Cleavages in Western Society', in Russell J. Dalton, Paul A. Beck, and Scott C. Flanagan (eds.), Electoral Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies: Realignment or Dealignment? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, chapter 2.
39. Kitschelt, Herbert (2010). 'The Comparative Analysis of Electoral and Partisan Politics: A Comment on a Special Issue of West European Politics', West European Politics, 33:3, 659-672.
40. Kitschelt, Herbert, and Philipp Rehm (2004). 'Socio-economic Group Preferences and Partisan Alignments', 14th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago.
41. Klingemann, Hans-Dieter, Richard I. Hofferbert, and Ian Budge (1994). Parties, Policies, and Democracy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
42. Knutsen, Oddbjørn (1988). 'The Impact of Structural and Ideological Party Cleavages in West European Democracies: A Comparative Empirical Analysis', British Journal of Political Science, 18:4, 323-52.
43. Knutsen, Oddbjørn (2010). 'The Regional Cleavage in Western Europe: Can Social Composition, Value Orientations and Territorial Identities Explain the Impact of Region on Party Choice?', West European Politics, 33:3, 553-85.
44. Knutsen, Oddbjørn, and Elinor Scarbrough (1995). 'Cleavage Politics', in Jan W. van Deth and Elinor Scarbrough (eds.), The Impact of Values. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 492-523.
45. Krasner, Stephen D. (1988). 'Sovereignty: An Institutional Perspective', Comparative Political Studies, 21:1, 66-94.
46. Kriesi, Hanspeter (1998). 'The Transformation of Cleavage Politics', European Journal of Political Research, 33:2, 165-85.
47. Kriesi, Hanspeter (2010). 'Restructuration of Partisan Politics and the Emergence of a New Cleavage Based on Values', West European Politics, 33:3, 673-85.
48. Kriesi, Hanspeter, Edgar Grande, Romain Lachat, Martin Dolezal, Simon Bornschier, and Timotheos Frey (2006). 'Globalization and the Transformation of the National Political Space: Six European Countries Compared', European Journal of Political Research, 45:6, 921-56.
49. Kroh, Martin (2008). 'The Preadult Origins of Post-Materialism: A Longitudinal Sibling Study', Discussion Papers of D.I.W. Berlin. German Institute for Economic Research, no. 797.
50. Lander, Christian (2008). Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks.
51. LaPalombara, Joseph, and Myron Weiner (1966). 'The Origin and Development of Political Parties', in Joseph LaPalombara, Myron Weiner, Leonard Binder, and William N. Chambers (eds.), Political Parties and Political Development. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 3-43.
52. Layman, Geoffrey C., and Thomas M. Carsey. (2002). 'Party Polarization and 'Conflict Extension' in the American Electorate', American Journal of Political Science, 46:4, 786-802.
53. Lazarsfeld, Paul F., Bernard Berelson, and Hazel Gaudet (1968). The People's Choice: How the Voter Makes Up his Mind in a Presidential Election. New York: Columbia University Press.
54. Lipset, Seymour Martin, and Stein Rokkan (1967). 'Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments. An Introduction', in Seymour Martin Lipset and Stein Rokkan (eds.), Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives. New York: Free Press, 1-64.
55. Mair, Peter (1997). Party System Change: Approaches and Interpretations. New York: Oxford University Press.
56. Mair, Peter (2001). 'The Freezing Hypothesis', in Lauri Karvonen and Stein Kuhnle (eds.), Party Systems and Voter Alignments Revisited. London: Routledge, 26-44.
57. Mair, Peter (2006). 'Party System Change', in Richard S. Katz and William J. Crotty (eds.), Handbook of Party Politics. London: Sage Publications, 63-74.
58. Manza, Jeff, and Clem Brooks (1999). Social Cleavages and Political Change: Voter Alignments and U.S. Party Coalitions. New York: Oxford University Press.
59. McAnulla, Stuart (2002). 'Structure and Agency', in David Marsh and Gerry Stoker (eds.), Theory and Methods in Political Science. 2nd edn. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 189-206.
60. McCombs, Maxwell E., and Donald L. Shaw (1976). 'Setting the Political Agenda: Structuring the "Unseen Environment"', Journal of Communication, 26:2, 18-22.
61. Mudde, Cas (2004). 'The Populist Zeitgeist', Government and Opposition, 39:4, 542-63.
62. Ostiguy, Pierre (1998). The Double Political Spectrum: Party Identities and Political Strategy in Argentina. Working Paper, The Helen Kellog Institute for International Studies, Google Scholar.
63. Panebianco, Angelo (1988). Political Parties: Organization and Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
64. Patrikios, Stratos (2008). 'American Republican Religion? Disentangling the Causal Link Between Religion and Politics in the US', Political Behavior, 30:3, 367-389.
65. Pierson, Paul (2000). 'Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics', American Political Science Review, 94:2, 251-267.
66. Przeworski, Adam (1986). Capitalism and Social Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
67. Przeworski, Adam, and John Sprague (1986). Paper Stones. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
68. Riker, William H. (1986). The Art of Political Manipulation. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
69. Rokkan, Stein (1970). Citizens, Elections, Parties; Approaches to the Comparative Study of the Processes of Development. New York: McKay.
70. Sartori, Giovanni (1969). 'From the Sociology of Politics to Political Sociology', Government and Opposition, 4:2, 195-214.
71. Schattschneider, Elmer Eric (1958). Party Government. New York: Rinehart.
72. Stubager, Rune (2010). 'The Development of the Education Cleavage: Denmark as a Critical Case', West European Politics, 33:3, 505-533.
73. Thelen, Kathleen (1999). 'Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics', Annual Review of Political Science, 2:1, 369-404.
74. Tóka, Gábor (1998). 'Party Appeals and Voter Loyalty in New Democracies', Political Studies, 46:3, 589-610.
75. Tóka, Gábor, and Tania Gosselin (2010). 'Persistent Political Divides, Electoral Volatility and Citizen Involvement: The Freezing Hypothesis in the 2004 European Election', West European Politics, 33:3, 608-633.
76. Urwin, Derek W. (1973). 'Political Parties, Societies and Regimes in Europe: Some Reflections on the Literature', European Journal of Political Research, 1:2, 179-204.
77. Van der Brug, Wouter (2010). 'Structural and Ideological Voting in Age Cohorts', West European Politics, 33:3, 586-607.
78. Van der Eijk, Cees, Mark Franklin, Thomas T. Mackie, and Henry Valen (1992). 'Cleavages, Conflict Resolution and Democracy', in Franklin, Mark N., Thomas T. Mackie, and Henry Valen (eds.), Electoral Change: Responses to Evolving Social and Attitudinal Structures in Western Countries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 406-431.
79. Zaller, John (1992). The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
80. Zuckerman, Alan (1975). 'Political Cleavage: A Conceptual and Theoretical Analysis', British Journal of Political Science, 5:2, 231-248.