Citizens, elections, parties : approaches to the comparative study of the processes of development

Abstract

Introduction to ECPR Edition x Preface 5 I. Nation-building, citizenship and political mobilization: approaches and models. 11 1. The Comparative Study of Political Participation 13 2. Methods and Models in the Comparative Study of Nation Building 46 3. Nation-Building, Cleavage Formation and the Structuring of Mass Politics 72 II. Suffrage extensions and waves of mobilization: empirical and statistical studies. 145 4. Electoral Systems 147 5. The Comparative Study of Electoral Statistics 169 6. The Mobilization of the Periphery 181 7. Electoral Mobilization, Party Competition and National Integration 226 III. Citizen reactions in fully-fl edged party systems. 249 8. Cross-National Survey Analysis: Historical, Analytical and Substantive Contexts 251 9. Party Preferences and Opinion Patterns in Western Europe 293 10. Ideological Consistency and Party Preference: Findings of a Seven-Country Survey 334 11. Electoral Activity, Party Membership and Organizational Infl uence 352 12. Citizen Participation in Political Life: a Comparison of Data for Norway and the United States 362 13. The Voter, the Reader and the Party Press 397 14. Readers, Viewers, Voters 417 Bibliography 432 Index 464