ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Post-Materialism, Party System, Limited Government
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Less to do with issue dimensions now, more with voters seeing themselves as customers no more great ideological clashes. Interactions resulting from inter-party competition, relations between parties (giovanni. Sartori: count parties, look at what they stand for, ideology, how they interact and compete, how they come together (or not) in gov formation, how they relate to society (and voters) as well. Liberalism (rival to conservatism) about freedom progressive (significant) change (= conflict with conservatives), limited gov perspective is the individual protect individual. Left change: right status quo, often associated with class (rich poor) Left labour party, socialist party drastic economic change working class cleavage. In scotland centre periphery is growing shift from class to question of independence (e. g. workers shifting to conservative) ulsterisation of scottish politics reference to. Issue dimensions: socioeconomic class, centre periphery (national identity, religion, language); urban rural; church-state, other issues (not necessarily cleavages, foreign policy, eu, environment/post-materialism.
