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Social Mobility and Political Attitudes: Comparative Perspectives. (book reviews)
American Political Science Review, September, 1993 by Merkl, Peter
This is a series of excellent studies about a very important subject, the effect of social mobility on political attitudes in ten contemporary nations - not including the six East European ones claimed by the dust jacket. It presents relevant survey research of the years 1955-84, elaborated by members of the IPSA Research Committee on Comparative Public Opinion and commented on by S.
M. Lipset and the editor. These were years of great change in the experience and subjective political interpretation of social mobility in all the nations covered, whether industrialized or Third World. ...
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