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Political cleavages in the European Community
Abstract
This is a time-series study designed to determine whether new political cleavages in the European Community (EC) are forming, growing in importance, and coming to be reflected in the EC party system. The cleavages considered are North v. South, center v. periphery, materialist v. post-materialist and integration v. nationalism. The traditional cleavages, class and religion are included as control cleavages for comparison. The primary methodological approach is discriminant analysis. Some results are verified with regression analysis because of the possibility that the data were tainted in recoding the party preference variable from the national to the Community level. The data sources are three Euro-Barometer surveys from 1976, 1981, and 1986. Three of the new cleavages were significant. There is only partial evidence that the cleavages are growing in importance. There is strong evidence that the cleavages are being reflected in the EC party system. With this study, it will be possible to analyze Euro-elections at the Community level rather than at the national level as has been done in the past.
Subject Area
Political science|Social structure
Recommended Citation
Lonowski, Delmer Emmanuel, "Political cleavages in the European Community" (1991). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI9211493.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9211493