An Analysis of the Changing Social Bases of America's Political Parties: 1952-2008

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Zingher
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Social Bases

The Social Bases of Political Parties in Argentina, 1912–2003

2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noam Lupu ◽  
Susan C. Stokes
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Bases

Change and Continuity in American Politics: The Social Bases of Political Parties.

Social Forces ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 963
Author(s):  
Charlene Rushton Black ◽  
David Knoke
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
American Politics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Bases

Social Cleavages and Political Change: Voter Alignments and U.S. Party Coalitions. By Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 342p. $55.00.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 478-480
Author(s):  
Carole Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vote Choice ◽  
Social Cleavages ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Bases ◽  
And Gender

This work is touted as the only book-length examination of the sociological model of vote choice in American politics since David Knoke's The Social Bases of Political Parties (1976), and it is, indeed, a well-researched examination of the role that race, class, religion, and gender play in our under- standing of voter alignments in the United States. At the same time, I have concerns about some of the methodological decisions made by the authors and the effect of these choices on their conclusions.

scholarly journals ‘A new power structure will be built from the grassroots’: The challenge of radical democracy in Allende’s Chile

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Schlotterbeck
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Radical Democracy ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Democratic Socialism ◽  
Grassroots Movements ◽  
Social Bases

Chilean history in the twentieth century poses a number of unresolved questions about the limits of liberal capitalist democracy to effectively include the interests of non-elite sectors. The origins of the contemporary crisis for Chile’s political elites – as well as of neoliberalism more broadly – can be found in the chasm between political parties and their social bases. The parallels faced by Chilean activists and protestors in 2019 invite a closer look at the possibilities for and restraints on popular sector participation during Chile’s experiment with democratic socialism. As an act of radical democracy, the 1972 People’s Assembly in Concepción represented a vital attempt to create new mechanisms for citizen participation within an unfolding revolutionary process. Today, as Chileans grapple with how to construct an alternative to neoliberal democracy, past historical experiments in radical democracy and building grassroots movements can offer important lessons for the present.

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