Oddbjorn Knutsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4175023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oddbjorn Knutsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oddbjorn |
| FAMILY NAME | Knutsen |
| SIGNATURE | KNUTSEN O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 541 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Social Structure, Value Orientations and Party Choice in Western Europe
This book analyses the impact of socio-structural variables, such as social class, religion, urban/rural residence, age and gender, on influencing an individual's voting preferences. There have been major changes in recent decades both to social structure and how social structure determines people's voting behaviour. There has also been a shift in value orientations, for example from religious to secular values and from more authoritarian to libe…
Social structure, social coalitions and party choice in Hungary
This article examines the relationship between social structure and party choice in Hungary on the basis of a survey from 2009 (N = 2980). The following structural variables are examined: ascriptive variables (age and gender), territorial variables (region and urban-rural residence), social class variables (education, social class and household income), sector employment and religious variables (religious denomination, church attendance and self-…
The Regional Cleavage in Western Europe
In this article regional differences in party support are analysed by means of comparative survey data from 15 West European countries. The main research question is: How can we explain that people in different regions vote for different political parties? On the basis of the literature on new regionalism and old and new politics, this article formulates two sets of hypotheses which are considered related to new regionalism and new politics, and …
Regions, social structure and value orientations
This article is a comparative study of regional differences in social and political value orientations. I identify four central sets of value orientations: two Old Politics orientations – religious–secular and economic left–right; and two New Politics orientations – libertarian/authoritarian and green values. I use the international value studies from 15 West European countries as my empirical base. The article addresses three major research prob…
The impact of sector employment on party choice
In this article, the impact of sector employment on party choice in eight West European countries is examined. The empirical analysis is organised into three parts. First, the impact of sector on party choice treated as a nominal‐level variable is analysed. Then the impact of sector within various social classes is focused upon, and finally sector employment is considered in relation to the division between socialist and non‐socialist parties. Th…
Religious Denomination and Party Choice in Western Europe
In this article, the impact of religious denomination on party choice is studied in eight western European countries from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. The research problems are (1) to examine the strength of the correlation between party choice and religious denomination over time, and (2) to analyze which political parties those who are affiliated and those who are unaffiliated to a religious community vote for, and how this has changed ov…
Social Class, Sector Employment, and Gender as Party Cleavages in the Scandinavian Countries
This article studies the changing impact of social class, sector employment, and gender with regard to party choice in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, from the 1970s to the 1990s, using election survey data. Political parties in the three countries are grouped into four party groups: left socialist, social democratic, centrist, and rightist parties.Class voting has declined in all three countries. The focus on the four party groups shows that differ…
Left–Right Materialist Value Orientations
This chapter examines the antithesis between right‐wing materialist beliefs, dominated by emphasis on market competition, personal freedom and private ownership, and left‐wing materialist beliefs, which espouse a range of regulatory mechanisms for achieving egalitarian socio‐economic objectives. It then reviews comparative statistical data on divergences between Western European countries on the left‐right materialist orientation spectrum.
The Strength of the Partisan Component of Left-Right Identity
This article examines left-right party polarization among the mass publics in a longitudinal comparative perspective. The analysis comprises eight countries - Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands - and trends are analysed from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. The strength of the relationship between party choice and left-right self-placement is analysed by three different measures: a standardized measu…
The Partisan and the Value-based Component of Left-Right Self-placement
This article takes Ronald Inglehart's and Hans-Dieter Klingemann's (1976) study regarding party and ideological components of left-right identification as a point of departure for a comparative analysis of the relationship between party choice, value orientations and left-right self-placement. The empirical analysis is based on eight and thirteen countries from 1981 and 1990, respectively. Party choice is still the dominant predictor of left-righ…
The Impact of Old Politics and New Politics Value Orientations on Party Choice – A Comparative Study
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 …
Value orientations, political conflicts and left‐right identification
Have the meanings of ‘left’ and ‘right’ changed during the last twenty years? In this article the ten‐point left‐right self‐placement scale is correlated with three central value orientations (religious/secular, economic left‐right and materialist/post‐materialist values) to examine whether associations between these value orientations and the self‐placement scale have changed from the early 1970s to 1990. Four theories about the changing meaning…
Materialist and Postmaterialist Values and Social Structure in the Nordic Countries
The discussion on political value change in advanced industrial society is related to the value dimension which Ronald Inglehart has conceptualized as the materialist/postmaterialist dimension. According to Inglehart, the silent revolution is a gradual value change from materialist to postmaterialist values, from giving greatest priority to values which reflect a preoccupation with physical sustenance and safety values towards a heavier emphasis …
Cleavage Dimensions in Ten West European Countries
The present article discusses different approaches for identifying empirical cleavage dimensions and concludes that a so-called cleavage-defined approach is most appropriate for identifying and interpreting party dimensions. It is further argued that discriminant analysis is a powerful statistical tool for analyzing cleavage dimensions in accordance with a cleavage-defined approach. Using different structural variables that are incorporated in th…
The Priorities of Materialist and Post‐Materialist Values in the Nordic Countries ‐ a Five‐Nation Comparison
The present study takes the theory of post‐materialism as a point of departure and compares the priorities of materialist and post‐materialist values in the five Nordic countries (Denmark. Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). The prevalence of political values in different countries is also examined, as is the relationship between materialist and post‐materialist values and age, from the perspective of whether generational replacement will contr…
Social Class, Gender, and Sector Employment as Political Cleavages in Scandinavia
Political cleavages in Western democracies have traditionally been connected to positions in the labour market. Dunng the last 10-15 years, research has established that the explanatory power of hierarchical status variables has been markedly reduced. The present study examines the relative importance of social class and two other structural cleavages which have been emphasized in recent political sociology: sector employment and gender. These va…
The Impact of Structural and Ideological Party Cleavages in West European Democracies
This article examines the relative impact of different political cleavages on party preference in a comparative West European context. The point of departure is the so-called ‘new polities’ theory, which postulates that the value polarization between materialist and post-materialist (MPM) political orientation is a new and increasingly important dimension in this respect. The findings from ten West European democracies confirm that the MPM cleava…
Postmaterialism in a Social Democratic State
The purpose of this article is to establish empirically the status of Ronald Inglehart's postmaterialist syndrome in Norway. As a prototypical social democratic state, and one of the only European countries yet to be adequately tested for postmaterialism, Norway represents a particularly interesting case for the Inglehart thesis. On the basis of a national sample survey carried out in 1981 (N = 1, 170), the analysis focuses on two major questions…
Leftist and Rightist Ideology in a Social Democratic State
The re-emergence and political re-establishment of conservatism in a number of leading western welfare states has provided the empirical dots on the ‘i's’ of the ideology-is-not-dead-argument. Political issues have clearly become more technical, but their resolution has become anything but consensual. The current political dialogue may be tortuously symbolic, masking more than it reveals and more than technicians feel is good for us all, but this…
Value orientations, political conflicts and left‐right identification
Have the meanings of ‘left’ and ‘right’ changed during the last twenty years? In this article the ten‐point left‐right self‐placement scale is correlated with three central value orientations (religious/secular, economic left‐right and materialist/post‐materialist values) to examine whether associations between these value orientations and the self‐placement scale have changed from the early 1970s to 1990. Four theories about the changing meaning…
Religious Denomination and Party Choice in Western Europe
In this article, the impact of religious denomination on party choice is studied in eight western European countries from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. The research problems are (1) to examine the strength of the correlation between party choice and religious denomination over time, and (2) to analyze which political parties those who are affiliated and those who are unaffiliated to a religious community vote for, and how this has changed ov…
The Partisan and the Value-based Component of Left-Right Self-placement
This article takes Ronald Inglehart's and Hans-Dieter Klingemann's (1976) study regarding party and ideological components of left-right identification as a point of departure for a comparative analysis of the relationship between party choice, value orientations and left-right self-placement. The empirical analysis is based on eight and thirteen countries from 1981 and 1990, respectively. Party choice is still the dominant predictor of left-righ…
Social Class, Sector Employment, and Gender as Party Cleavages in the Scandinavian Countries
This article studies the changing impact of social class, sector employment, and gender with regard to party choice in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, from the 1970s to the 1990s, using election survey data. Political parties in the three countries are grouped into four party groups: left socialist, social democratic, centrist, and rightist parties.Class voting has declined in all three countries. The focus on the four party groups shows that differ…
The Impact of Structural and Ideological Party Cleavages in West European Democracies
This article examines the relative impact of different political cleavages on party preference in a comparative West European context. The point of departure is the so-called ‘new polities’ theory, which postulates that the value polarization between materialist and post-materialist (MPM) political orientation is a new and increasingly important dimension in this respect. The findings from ten West European democracies confirm that the MPM cleava…
Cleavage Dimensions in Ten West European Countries
The present article discusses different approaches for identifying empirical cleavage dimensions and concludes that a so-called cleavage-defined approach is most appropriate for identifying and interpreting party dimensions. It is further argued that discriminant analysis is a powerful statistical tool for analyzing cleavage dimensions in accordance with a cleavage-defined approach. Using different structural variables that are incorporated in th…
The impact of sector employment on party choice
In this article, the impact of sector employment on party choice in eight West European countries is examined. The empirical analysis is organised into three parts. First, the impact of sector on party choice treated as a nominal‐level variable is analysed. Then the impact of sector within various social classes is focused upon, and finally sector employment is considered in relation to the division between socialist and non‐socialist parties. Th…
Postmaterialism in a Social Democratic State
The purpose of this article is to establish empirically the status of Ronald Inglehart's postmaterialist syndrome in Norway. As a prototypical social democratic state, and one of the only European countries yet to be adequately tested for postmaterialism, Norway represents a particularly interesting case for the Inglehart thesis. On the basis of a national sample survey carried out in 1981 (N = 1, 170), the analysis focuses on two major questions…
The Strength of the Partisan Component of Left-Right Identity
This article examines left-right party polarization among the mass publics in a longitudinal comparative perspective. The analysis comprises eight countries - Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands - and trends are analysed from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. The strength of the relationship between party choice and left-right self-placement is analysed by three different measures: a standardized measu…
Leftist and Rightist Ideology in a Social Democratic State
The re-emergence and political re-establishment of conservatism in a number of leading western welfare states has provided the empirical dots on the ‘i's’ of the ideology-is-not-dead-argument. Political issues have clearly become more technical, but their resolution has become anything but consensual. The current political dialogue may be tortuously symbolic, masking more than it reveals and more than technicians feel is good for us all, but this…
Materialist and Postmaterialist Values and Social Structure in the Nordic Countries
The discussion on political value change in advanced industrial society is related to the value dimension which Ronald Inglehart has conceptualized as the materialist/postmaterialist dimension. According to Inglehart, the silent revolution is a gradual value change from materialist to postmaterialist values, from giving greatest priority to values which reflect a preoccupation with physical sustenance and safety values towards a heavier emphasis …
Social Class, Gender, and Sector Employment as Political Cleavages in Scandinavia
Political cleavages in Western democracies have traditionally been connected to positions in the labour market. Dunng the last 10-15 years, research has established that the explanatory power of hierarchical status variables has been markedly reduced. The present study examines the relative importance of social class and two other structural cleavages which have been emphasized in recent political sociology: sector employment and gender. These va…
The Regional Cleavage in Western Europe
In this article regional differences in party support are analysed by means of comparative survey data from 15 West European countries. The main research question is: How can we explain that people in different regions vote for different political parties? On the basis of the literature on new regionalism and old and new politics, this article formulates two sets of hypotheses which are considered related to new regionalism and new politics, and …
Regions, social structure and value orientations
This article is a comparative study of regional differences in social and political value orientations. I identify four central sets of value orientations: two Old Politics orientations – religious–secular and economic left–right; and two New Politics orientations – libertarian/authoritarian and green values. I use the international value studies from 15 West European countries as my empirical base. The article addresses three major research prob…
The Impact of Old Politics and New Politics Value Orientations on Party Choice – A Comparative Study
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 …
The Priorities of Materialist and Post‐Materialist Values in the Nordic Countries ‐ a Five‐Nation Comparison
The present study takes the theory of post‐materialism as a point of departure and compares the priorities of materialist and post‐materialist values in the five Nordic countries (Denmark. Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). The prevalence of political values in different countries is also examined, as is the relationship between materialist and post‐materialist values and age, from the perspective of whether generational replacement will contr…
Social structure, social coalitions and party choice in Hungary
This article examines the relationship between social structure and party choice in Hungary on the basis of a survey from 2009 (N = 2980). The following structural variables are examined: ascriptive variables (age and gender), territorial variables (region and urban-rural residence), social class variables (education, social class and household income), sector employment and religious variables (religious denomination, church attendance and self-…
Leftist and Rightist Ideology in a Social Democratic State
The re-emergence and political re-establishment of conservatism in a number of leading western welfare states has provided the empirical dots on the ‘i's’ of the ideology-is-not-dead-argument. Political issues have clearly become more technical, but their resolution has become anything but consensual. The current political dialogue may be tortuously symbolic, masking more than it reveals and more than technicians feel is good for us all, but this…
Postmaterialism in a Social Democratic State
The purpose of this article is to establish empirically the status of Ronald Inglehart's postmaterialist syndrome in Norway. As a prototypical social democratic state, and one of the only European countries yet to be adequately tested for postmaterialism, Norway represents a particularly interesting case for the Inglehart thesis. On the basis of a national sample survey carried out in 1981 (N = 1, 170), the analysis focuses on two major questions…
The Impact of Structural and Ideological Party Cleavages in West European Democracies
This article examines the relative impact of different political cleavages on party preference in a comparative West European context. The point of departure is the so-called ‘new polities’ theory, which postulates that the value polarization between materialist and post-materialist (MPM) political orientation is a new and increasingly important dimension in this respect. The findings from ten West European democracies confirm that the MPM cleava…
Cleavage Dimensions in Ten West European Countries
The present article discusses different approaches for identifying empirical cleavage dimensions and concludes that a so-called cleavage-defined approach is most appropriate for identifying and interpreting party dimensions. It is further argued that discriminant analysis is a powerful statistical tool for analyzing cleavage dimensions in accordance with a cleavage-defined approach. Using different structural variables that are incorporated in th…
The Priorities of Materialist and Post‐Materialist Values in the Nordic Countries ‐ a Five‐Nation Comparison
The present study takes the theory of post‐materialism as a point of departure and compares the priorities of materialist and post‐materialist values in the five Nordic countries (Denmark. Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). The prevalence of political values in different countries is also examined, as is the relationship between materialist and post‐materialist values and age, from the perspective of whether generational replacement will contr…
Social Class, Gender, and Sector Employment as Political Cleavages in Scandinavia
Political cleavages in Western democracies have traditionally been connected to positions in the labour market. Dunng the last 10-15 years, research has established that the explanatory power of hierarchical status variables has been markedly reduced. The present study examines the relative importance of social class and two other structural cleavages which have been emphasized in recent political sociology: sector employment and gender. These va…
Materialist and Postmaterialist Values and Social Structure in the Nordic Countries
The discussion on political value change in advanced industrial society is related to the value dimension which Ronald Inglehart has conceptualized as the materialist/postmaterialist dimension. According to Inglehart, the silent revolution is a gradual value change from materialist to postmaterialist values, from giving greatest priority to values which reflect a preoccupation with physical sustenance and safety values towards a heavier emphasis …
The Impact of Old Politics and New Politics Value Orientations on Party Choice – A Comparative Study
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 …
Value orientations, political conflicts and left‐right identification
Have the meanings of ‘left’ and ‘right’ changed during the last twenty years? In this article the ten‐point left‐right self‐placement scale is correlated with three central value orientations (religious/secular, economic left‐right and materialist/post‐materialist values) to examine whether associations between these value orientations and the self‐placement scale have changed from the early 1970s to 1990. Four theories about the changing meaning…
The Partisan and the Value-based Component of Left-Right Self-placement
This article takes Ronald Inglehart's and Hans-Dieter Klingemann's (1976) study regarding party and ideological components of left-right identification as a point of departure for a comparative analysis of the relationship between party choice, value orientations and left-right self-placement. The empirical analysis is based on eight and thirteen countries from 1981 and 1990, respectively. Party choice is still the dominant predictor of left-righ…
Left–Right Materialist Value Orientations
This chapter examines the antithesis between right‐wing materialist beliefs, dominated by emphasis on market competition, personal freedom and private ownership, and left‐wing materialist beliefs, which espouse a range of regulatory mechanisms for achieving egalitarian socio‐economic objectives. It then reviews comparative statistical data on divergences between Western European countries on the left‐right materialist orientation spectrum.
The Strength of the Partisan Component of Left-Right Identity
This article examines left-right party polarization among the mass publics in a longitudinal comparative perspective. The analysis comprises eight countries - Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands - and trends are analysed from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. The strength of the relationship between party choice and left-right self-placement is analysed by three different measures: a standardized measu…
Social Class, Sector Employment, and Gender as Party Cleavages in the Scandinavian Countries
This article studies the changing impact of social class, sector employment, and gender with regard to party choice in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, from the 1970s to the 1990s, using election survey data. Political parties in the three countries are grouped into four party groups: left socialist, social democratic, centrist, and rightist parties.Class voting has declined in all three countries. The focus on the four party groups shows that differ…
Religious Denomination and Party Choice in Western Europe
In this article, the impact of religious denomination on party choice is studied in eight western European countries from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. The research problems are (1) to examine the strength of the correlation between party choice and religious denomination over time, and (2) to analyze which political parties those who are affiliated and those who are unaffiliated to a religious community vote for, and how this has changed ov…
The impact of sector employment on party choice
In this article, the impact of sector employment on party choice in eight West European countries is examined. The empirical analysis is organised into three parts. First, the impact of sector on party choice treated as a nominal‐level variable is analysed. Then the impact of sector within various social classes is focused upon, and finally sector employment is considered in relation to the division between socialist and non‐socialist parties. Th…
Regions, social structure and value orientations
This article is a comparative study of regional differences in social and political value orientations. I identify four central sets of value orientations: two Old Politics orientations – religious–secular and economic left–right; and two New Politics orientations – libertarian/authoritarian and green values. I use the international value studies from 15 West European countries as my empirical base. The article addresses three major research prob…
The Regional Cleavage in Western Europe
In this article regional differences in party support are analysed by means of comparative survey data from 15 West European countries. The main research question is: How can we explain that people in different regions vote for different political parties? On the basis of the literature on new regionalism and old and new politics, this article formulates two sets of hypotheses which are considered related to new regionalism and new politics, and …
Social structure, social coalitions and party choice in Hungary
This article examines the relationship between social structure and party choice in Hungary on the basis of a survey from 2009 (N = 2980). The following structural variables are examined: ascriptive variables (age and gender), territorial variables (region and urban-rural residence), social class variables (education, social class and household income), sector employment and religious variables (religious denomination, church attendance and self-…
Social Structure, Value Orientations and Party Choice in Western Europe
This book analyses the impact of socio-structural variables, such as social class, religion, urban/rural residence, age and gender, on influencing an individual's voting preferences. There have been major changes in recent decades both to social structure and how social structure determines people's voting behaviour. There has also been a shift in value orientations, for example from religious to secular values and from more authoritarian to libe…
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