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The Impact of Old Politics and New Politics Value Orientations on Party Choice – A Comparative Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Oddbjørn Knutsen
Oddbjørn Knutsen
Affiliation:
Political Science, University of Oslo
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Abstract

Relationships between five central value orientations and party choice are examined in a comparative West European setting by using the second wave of the European Values Study from 1990. These orientations comprise two central conflict lines related to the Old Politics model for political cleavages, namely religious/secular and left-right materialist value orientations, and three new sets of value orientation which, according to theories of New Politics, should become important in advanced industrial society. The research problems are: To examine the comparative strength of the impact of the various value orientations on party preference in a comparative West European setting; To examine how voters of different party families are grouped along the various value orientations. Which parties have the most secular or religious, leftist materialist and post-materialist electorate, and are there consistent comparative patterns concerning where the voters for given party families are placed?; To focus upon the impact of the New Politics value conflicts.

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Journal of Public Policy , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 1 - 63
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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