Abstract
Abstract The Preface introduces the notion of partisan alignments, central to everything that follows. Partisan alignments are the manner by which social cleavages are linked to policy preferences and transmitted to the political parties. For this, the great social cleavages are social class, racial background, religious denomination, and sex. Their alignments are pursued in the four major domains of policy conflict across the postwar period, namely social welfare, civil rights, cultural values, and national security. The chapter also introduces the measures for these alignments and the way they are presented. And it closes with a summary of each of the chapters to come.
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