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Classes, Strata and Parties in West Germany and the United States*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2009
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As a major socio-political doctrine in the industrializing West, Marxism has had great impact on die research and theory of political sociology and behavioral political science. Particularly, a great deal of research energy has been expended on establishing the nature and degree of the relationship between social class and political partisanship in Western democracies.
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