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POLITICS & SOCIETY
Volume 51, Issue 4, Pages 520-566Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/00323292221100220
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partisan realignment; partisan dealignment; politics in knowledge societies; polarity reversal; polarization; electoral competition
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This article proposes a framework to analyze the realignment processes in countries transitioning from industrial to knowledge societies. It divides the electorate into four groups based on income and education levels and predicts how their voting propensities change over time.
This article proposes a framework to analyze realignment processes in countries that transition from industrial to knowledge societies. It characterizes the electorate in terms of two traits that are main predictors for attitudes in a two-dimensional policy space of economic and noneconomic issues: income (low vs. high) and education (low vs. high). The framework divides the electorate into four groups-based on the interaction of these two dichotomized traits-and predicts how and when the voting propensities of these four groups change over time. Using a wide variety of data sources, the article tests hypotheses regarding changing voting behavior of education-income groups, as well as cross-national differences across twenty-one rich democracies.
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