edited by Lauri Karvonen and Stein Kuhnle ; with an introduction by Seymour Martin Lipset.
New York :
Routledge,
2001.
xv, 317 pages :
illustrations, map ;
25 cm
Routledge advances in international relations and politics
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-303) and index.
Cleavages, parties and democracy / Seymour Martin Lipset -- Party systems and voter alignments in the tradition of political sociology / Erik Allardt -- The freezing hypothesis: an evaluation / Peter Mair -- How bright was the future? the study of parties, cleavages and voters in the age of the technological revolution / Lauri Karvonen and Jostein Ryssevik -- Are cleavages frozen in the English-speaking democracies? / Richard S. Katz -- Class, religion, party: triple decline of electoral cleavages in western Europe / Mattei Dogan -- Change and stability in the Finnish party system / Pertti Pesonen -- Japan: from emerging to stable party system? / Joji Watanuki -- The party systems of Spain: old cleavages and new challenges / Juan J. Linz and José Ramón Montero -- Freezing pillars and frozen cleavages: party systems and voter alignments in the consociational democracies / Kris Deschouwer -- From post-communism to neo-communism? the reconstitution of the party systems of East-Central Europe / Ulf Lindström -- Party systems and voter alignments in the new democracies of the third world / Vicky Randall -- Party systems and voter alignments in small island states / Dag Anckar.