Social structure, value orientations and party choice in Western Europe

Social Structure, Value Orientations and Party Choice in Western Europe -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Appendix Tables -- 1 Introduction and Presentation of the Research Problems -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Stable Alignment, Dealignment and Realignment -- 1.3 Preference Formation and Party Choice in Advanced Industrial Societies -- 1.4 Cognitive Mobilisation and Political Sophistication -- 1.5 Social Structure, Value Orientations and Party Choice -- 1.5.1 The Party Choice Variable -- 1.5.2 Social Structure -- 1.5.3 Value Orientations -- 1.6 Explanatory Macro-Level Variables -- 1.6.1 Advanced Industrialism and Post-industrialism -- 1.6.2 Party System Polarisation -- 1.6.3 Party System Fragmentation -- 1.7 Methodological and Statistical Considerations -- 1.7.1 General Considerations -- 1.7.2 Multinomial Logistic Regression -- 1.7.2.1 Description of the Statistical Method -- 1.7.2.2 Pseudo-R2 as a Measure of Goodness-of-fit -- 1.7.2.3 The Use of Log Odds Ratios as a Basis for Calculating Cleavage Strengths -- 1.7.3 Conclusions -- 1.8 Organisation of This Book -- Notes -- 2 The Data Set and the Party Systems of the 18 Countries -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 About the European Values Study 2008 -- 2.3 The Countries and Grouping of Countries into Regions -- 2.4 The Party Choice Variable in EVS 2008 -- 2.5 Party Families -- 2.6 The Structural Macro Variables for Advanced Industrial Societies and Wealth -- 2.7 Party System Fragmentation and Polarisation -- 2.7.1 Fragmentation -- 2.7.2 Polarisation -- 2.7.3 Correlations Between the Various Macro-Level Variables -- 2.7.4 The Analyses Based on the Macro-Level Variables -- Notes -- 3 Socio-structural Variables and Value Orientations -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Socio-structural Variables -- 3.2.1 Introduction -- 3.2.2 Religious Denominations -- 3.2.3 Urban-Rural Residence