Webbläsaren som du använder stöds inte av denna webbplats. Alla versioner av Internet Explorer stöds inte längre, av oss eller Microsoft (läs mer här: * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Var god och använd en modern webbläsare för att ta del av denna webbplats, som t.ex. nyaste versioner av Edge, Chrome, Firefox eller Safari osv.

Foto på Jonathan Polk. Foto.

Jonathan Polk

Professor

Foto på Jonathan Polk. Foto.

New Wine in Old Bottles : Explaining the Dimensional Structure of European Party Systems

Författare

  • Jan Rovny
  • Jonathan Polk

Summary, in English

In Europe, noneconomic political issues are seen as secondary but significant aspects of political competition. There is uncertainty, however, about the sources of the varying relationships between economic and cultural politics. This article explains the variance in the correlation of the economic and cultural dimensions in different party systems through the impact of historical religious conflict. Despite the rise of new cultural issues, historical religious divides strikingly predict the relative distinctiveness of the sociocultural dimension in today’s Europe. By demonstrating that economic conflicts did not always supersede religious divides, but were at times brought into standing religious cleavages, we deepen the understanding of cleavage formation and longevity, and dimensional structure of politics in Europe.

Publiceringsår

2019

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

12-24

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Party Politics

Volym

25

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Political Science

Nyckelord

  • cleavages
  • dimensionality
  • Europe
  • party politics
  • religion

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1460-3683