Social cleavages and political change
Subtitle: voter alignments and U.S. party coalitions
By: Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks
Contributors: Brooks, Clem
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Party affiliation -- United States; Social classes -- United States; Voting -- United States
Description: "This study provides the first systematic book-length reassessment and restatement of the sociological approach to voting in the United States in more than 20 years. It challenges widespread arguments that the importance of social cleavages have declined significantly in recent years as a result of postindustrial social and economic changes.".

"The book reconceptualizes the concept of social cleavage, focusing on four major cleavages in American society: class, religion, gender, and race. It identifies a series of important changes in the alignments of the groups comprising these four cleavages. It examines the implications of these changes for the Democratic and Republican Parties, and assesses the impact on each parties' electoral coalition."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-333) and indexes