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| Title: | Agency and the Structure of Party Competition: Alignment, Stability and the Role of Political Elites |
| Authors: | DEEGAN-KRAUSE, Kevin
ENYEDI, Zsolt |
| Keywords: | political parties
cleavages
structure
agency
public opinion |
| Issue Date: | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | EUI RSCAS
2010/09
EUDO - European Union Democracy Observatory |
| Abstract: | The study of cleavages focuses primarily on constraints imposed by socio-demographic factors. While
scholars have not ignored the agency of political elites, such scholarship remains fragmented among
sub-fields and lacks a coherent conceptual framework. This article explores both temporal stability and
positional alignments linking vote choice with socio-demographic characteristics, values and group
identity to distinguish among particular kinds of structural constraints. On the basis of those
distinctions, it identifies various methods by which elites reshape structures, and it links those to a
broader framework that allows more comprehensive research connecting political agents and structural
constraints in the electoral realm. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1814/13133 |
| ISSN: | 1028-3625 |
| Appears in Collections: | RSCAS Working Papers
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