Download or read book Ties that Bind written by James Bickerton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ties That Bind looks at the socio-economic, ethnolinguistic, and demographic factors in party support; the enduring quality of these social bases; the importance of geography in structuring variations in the voter-party relationship; and electoral change as a function of the strategic decisions of the parties and their leaders and the voter response these decisions evoke.