Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part I: Voter-Centered Approaches

1. The Social Voter 19

2. The Partisan Voter 32

3. The Issue Voter 57

Part II: Party-Centered Approaches

4. The Oligarchical Party 75

5. The Functional Party 103

6. The Exclusive Party 124

7. Party, State, and Society 157

Notes 167

References 172

Index 184

About the Author

Cedric de Leon is associate professor of sociology at Providence College.

Reviews

"This creative, well-organized, and well-written book is going tomake important contributions to not only the analysis of partiesbut to the social sciences in general. Party & Societyblends in-depth coverage of the field, criticism, and originalargumentation. Students and experts fortunate enough to read thisbook will get a fuller sense of party politics than they ever hadbefore." Cihan Tudal, University of California, Berkeley "Party & Society is a map and a brief. It offers amuch-needed guide to the plethora of classical and contemporaryperspectives on political parties in both sociology and politicalscience. But it also adds up to an important argument: ifsociologically minded students of parties wish to present a robustalternative to 'voter-centered approaches' in accounting for theobservable complexities of political life, they would do well totake seriously the idea that parties are by turns cause andconsequence of states and societies. This book should be requiredreading for all political sociologists." Anthony S. Chen, Northwestern University