Political Conflict in Western Europe

Cover
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Political Conflict in Western Europe......Page 3
Title
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Copyright
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Content
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Figures
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Tables 
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Preface and acknowledgments
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PART I Theory and methods......Page 21
Introduction......Page 23
The theoretical framework: an extended and dynamic concept of cleavage formation
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The structural potential of the new political conflicts......Page 32
Two logics of globalization conflicts......Page 36
Four cleavage coalitions......Page 40
The national context......Page 43
The interplay of national and European contexts......Page 45
Linking the different arenas: party politics, protest politics, and public debates......Page 47
Plan of the book......Page 51
Introduction......Page 56
Selection of countries and time periods......Page 57
Data collection: sampling and coding newspaper articles......Page 59
Selection of newspapers......Page 60
The core-sentence approach
......Page 61
Coding protest politics......Page 65
Data analysis strategies......Page 69
Categorizing actors and issues......Page 70
Measures: position, salience, and conflict intensity......Page 75
Multidimensional scaling: an empirical response to our critics......Page 78
Summary......Page 80
PART II The development of the `integration–demarcation´ cleavage
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Introduction......Page 87
The structure of the demand space in the 2000s......Page 89
Political participation: explaining turnout and protest participation......Page 93
The impact of socio-structural characteristics on participation
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The impact of issue positions on participation......Page 99
Party choice in national and European elections
......Page 106
Conclusion......Page 113
Introduction......Page 116
The overall structure of the national political space in Western Europe
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The structure of the national political space in the six countries
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Positions......Page 128
Salience......Page 129
Polarization......Page 133
Salience and position at the party level......Page 140
Conclusion......Page 143
Appendix 6A Classification of protest issues......Page 145
Introduction......Page 147
European elections: from 'second-order' to a battleground of the new cleavage?
......Page 149
European election campaigns: definition and relative importance......Page 152
European elections: issue salience, conflict intensity, and the positions of parties......Page 154
Conclusion......Page 169
Introduction......Page 171
General and country-specific expectations
......Page 172
Conflict intensity in the arena of protest politics......Page 175
Issues of protest politics......Page 178
The return of economics in the realm of cultural issues
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The terrain of cultural winners'
positions......Page 183
New cultural and economic issues?
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The specific issues, seen comparatively......Page 191
The impact of (new) issues on transnationalization and action repertoires
......Page 193
Conclusion......Page 197
Introduction......Page 202
Patterns of change: new cultural issues across arenas......Page 203
Three theses on the relationship between electoral and protest politics
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Different logics at work? Tracing the salience of issue positions across arenas 
......Page 212
Different logics at work? Political parties in electoral and protest politics......Page 214
The populist radical right as the driving force of change......Page 218
Conclusion......Page 222
PART III: Public debates: the articulation of the new cleavage in detail
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Introduction......Page 227
The importance of political arenas......Page 231
The standing of political actors across arenas......Page 236
The articulation of the new cleavage in different arenas and debates
......Page 240
Conclusion......Page 245
Introduction......Page 249
Opening the 'black boxes' – the multi-faceted structure of the globalization debates
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Immigration sub-issues
......Page 253
Economic liberalization sub-issues......Page 254
European integration sub-issues......Page 255
Framing the globalization cleavage......Page 257
The impact of the cultural and the economic logic......Page 259
The frames preferred by different types of actors......Page 263
Framing opposition and support of denationalization......Page 269
Conclusion......Page 271
Positions taken by the actors in the debates......Page 274
Cleavage coalitions and the dimensionality of globalization debates......Page 281
The coalitions' core beliefs
......Page 288
Conclusion......Page 291
PART IV Conclusion......Page 295
The main argument: restructuring political conflict......Page 297
Is there a new cleavage and how stable is it?
......Page 299
How relevant are political parties and the electoral arena to organizing the new cleavage?
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How national is the new cleavage?
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Political dynamics, competing frames, conflicting cleavage coalitions......Page 312
How does the new cleavage affect the intensity of political conflict?
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The paradox of globalization conflicts: transformative change and structural stability
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Index
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