1104 - Old Problems and New Methods: The Resurgence of Political Parties in Political Sociology

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Over the past several years, there has there been a growing interest in the study of political parties within political sociology, as evidenced by the pending appearance of both article- and book-length reviews of the field. Such efforts have given rise to several distinct strands of scholarship, all of promise to make parties as a central focus. Not only is their a renewed interest in the role of parties in classical sociology, a significant amount of work has gone in to redefining our theoretical understanding of the interplay between states, parties, and society. These theoretical advances have also been complimented by methodological innovations characterized by, among other things, the use of various forms of network analysis, all of which are designed to capture the relational foundations of political behavior. One of the primary reasons why these lines of work have been so exciting is that they are based on the study of a wide range of cases including the United States, Latin America, Italy, India, and Turkey. The purpose of this panel is to bring together scholars working in this emerging area of inquiry.

Sub Unit

• Section on Political Sociology / Old Problems and New Methods: The Resurgence of Political Parties in Political Sociology

Session Organizer

• Adam Slez, University of Virginia

Presider

• Adam Slez, University of Virginia

Individual Presentations

• Does Class Matter? It Depends: Regional Variation in Class Voting, 1948-2000 - Stephanie Lynn Ternullo, University of Chicago

• Factions in Action: Party Networks and Political Alignment in China's Reform Era - Yang Zhang, American University; Feng Shi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• How Party Coalitions Anchor Group Positions: The Case of Evangelicals and Climate Change - Lydia Bean, University of Texas at Arlington; Steven Teles, Johns Hopkins University

• Pathways of Partisan Ambivalence: Political Outcomes of the Global Wave of Contention (2010-2018) - Tomas Gold, University of Notre Dame; Ann Mische, University of Notre Dame

• History, Biography and Historical-Comparative Analysis: A Refraction Approach to the Sociology of Parties - Stephanie L. Mudge, University of California-Davis