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The Past in the Present: A Cleavage Theory of Party Response to European Integration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2001

GARY MARKS  and
CAROLE J. WILSON
CAROLE J. WILSON
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Abstract

This article explains the positions taken by national political parties on the issue of European integration over the period 1984–96. Based on the theory of party systems developed by Lipset and Rokkan, we develop a cleavage account of party response to new political issues. We hypothesize that European integration is assimilated into pre-existing ideologies of party leaders, activists and constituencies that reflect long-standing commitments on fundamental domestic issues.

Type
Research Article
Information
British Journal of Political Science , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , July 2000 , pp. 433 - 459
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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