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Here is a benchmark study of voter attitudes in a Latin American country. This volume is based on extensive survey research conducted during the Venezuelan elections of 1973. The methods employed by Baloyra and Martz to poll an "unpollable" society successfully challenge previously established paradigms.
The authors interviewed a representative sample of over 1,500 voters to determine relationships between class, status, community, context, religion, ideology, and partisanship on the one hand and political attitudes and preferences on the other. They found that the Venezuelan electorate is defined by a series of contradictory tendencies, and they place their conclusions in the context of contemporary political science literature regarding class and party, ideology and party, and inequality and participation.
Contents
Preface
1. Political Attitudes in Venezuela: Problems and Prospects
Introduction
The Emphasis on Dependence
A Search for Roots
Analytic Perspectives
An Encapsulated Review
2. The Social Context of Political Opinion
Introduction
The Political Role of Classes
Social Class and Social Status
Class Identification
Social Stratification
Patterns of Class Consciousness
A Typology of Social Stratification
3. The Social Context of Political Experience
Introduction
Evaluating the Regime
Evaluating Political Institutions
The Social Context of Criticism
Social Inequality and Policy Preferences
Social Inequality, Ideology, and Authoritarianism
Social Inequality and Political Participation
Stratification and Political Party Preference
4. Cultural Diversity and Political Cleavages, I: The Community Context
Introduction
Cultural Diversity in Venezuela
Cultural Diversity and Political Cleavages
Cultural Cleavages and Community Context
A Theoretical Blemish: Community Context and Participation
Community Context and Political Cleavages
Religion: A Change of Skin
Demographic Characteristics of Venezuelan Catholics
5. Cultural Diversity and Political Cleavages, II: The Ideological Connection
Introduction
A First Approximation: Self-Placements
Ideological Position
Ideological Attitudes and Ideological Position
The Left-Right Continuum in Venezuela
Sources of Ideological Orientation
The Scope of Ideological Constraint
6. Partisanship in Venezuelan Politics
Some Assumptions
General Partisanship
Specific Partisanship
Party Oppositions: Adecos and Copeyanos
Party Oppositions: Establishment and Antiestablishment
Conclusion
7. Summary and Conclusions
Opinions and Contradictions
Societal Cleavages and Political Opinion in Venezuela
Appendix A. The Research Design
Appendix B. The Questionnaire
Appendix C. Estimation of Social Class Status
Appendix D. Note on the Use of Regression Analysis
Appendix E. Note on Inference Making from Multiple-Range (one-way analysis of variance) Tests
Appendix F. Scales and Indices
Appendix G. Note on the Use of Multidimensional Scaling
Notes
Subject Index
Author Index
