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  1. Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

    Dick Houtman (assistant professor of sociology, member)

  2. Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR), Netherlands

    Dick Houtman (assistant professor of sociology, member)

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His principal research interest is cultural change in late modernity and the way it restructures the political and religious domains. This article is drawn from his first book-length work in English, Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science: ‘Marxicism Lite’ and Its Blind Spot for Culture (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 2003).

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Houtman, D. Lipset and “working-class” authoritarianism. Am Soc 34, 85–103 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-003-1008-8

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