Abstract

Introduction 1. Cleavages, parties and democracy Seymour Martin Lipset Theoretical and analytical developments 2. 'Party systems and voter alignments' in the tradition of political sociology Erik Allardt 3. The freezing hypothesis: an evaluation Peter Mair 4. How bright was the future? The study of parties, cleavages and voters in the age of the technological revolution Lauri Karvonen and Jostein Ryssevik Revisited themes 5. Are cleavages frozen in the English-speaking democracies? Richard S. Katz 6. Class, religion, party: triple decline of electoral cleavages in Western Europe Mattei Dogan 7. Change and stability in the Finnish party system? Pertti Pesonen 8. Japan - from emerging to stable party system? Joji Watanuki 9. The party systems of Spain: old cleavages and new challenges Juan Linz and Jose Ramon Montero New perspectives and areas 10. Freezing pillars and frozen cleavages. Party systems and voter alignments in the consociational democracies Kris Deschouwer 11. From post-communism to neo-communism? The reconstitution of the party systems of East-Central Europe Ulf Lindstrom 12. Party systems and voter alignments in the new democracies of the third world Vicky Randall 13. Party systems and voter alignments in small island states Dag Anckar

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