The purpose of this study is to analyze the changing cleavage lines in Danish politics as reflected in people's perceptions of and votes for the various political parties in the system. The focus is on “change” between the 1971 and 1973 elections and what cause this change. Multidimensional scaling techniques help to uncover the differing cleavage lines in Danish politics in the 1971 and 1973 elections and to give us some understanding of the voting patterns underlying them. Direct analysis of correlates of the vote further specifies the causal factors involved in 1971 and 1973 in forming these different cleavage structures. Implications of these findings for the future of the Danish political system are then discussed.
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Rusk et al. (1974) studied this question.