Citizen Politics - International Student Edition

Russell Dalton is a professor at the University of California, Irvine and former director of the Center for the Study of Democracy. His research and teaching focuses on the changing nature of citizen politics in contemporary democracies. He has received a Fulbright Research Fellowship, a German Marshall Fund Fellowship, Barbra Streisand Center Fellowship and POSCO Research Fellowship. He has served on the boards of the American National Election Study, the British Election Study and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. Among his recent authored or edited books are The Apartisan American (2012), Political Parties and Democratic Linkage (2011), Citizens, Context and Choice (2011), The Good Citizen (2009), Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior (2007), Citizens, Democracy and Markets around the Pacific Rim (2006), Democratic Challenges, Democratic Choices: The Erosion of Political Support in Advanced Industrial Democracies (2004), Democracy Transformed? The Expansion of Citizen Access in Advanced Industrial Democracies (2003), and Parties without Partisans: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies (co-editor, 2001). He has also appeared in six feature-length Hollywood movies.

• List of Tables and FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsCHAPTER 1. IntroductionComparing Public Opinion across NationsChoosing Nations to CompareA New Style of Citizen PoliticsSuggested ReadingsNotesPART I. POLITICS AND THE PUBLICCHAPTER 2. The Nature of Citizen BeliefsThe SupercitizenReality versus a Theoretical IdealElitist Theory of DemocracyPolitical Sophistication ReconsideredPolitics and the PublicSuggested ReadingsNotesCHAPTER 3. How We ParticipateModes of ParticipationVotingCampaign ActivityDirect ContactingCommunal ActivityProtest and Contentious ActionWired ActivismChanging Publics and Political ParticipationSuggested ReadingsNotesCHAPTER 4. Who Participates?The Civic Voluntarism ModelWho Votes?Campaign ActivityDirect ContactingCommunal ActivityWho Protests?Internet ActivismComparing the Correlates of Different ActivitiesParticipation and the Democratic ProcessSuggested ReadingsNotesPART II. POLITICAL ORIENTATIONSCHAPTER 5. Values in ChangeThe Nature of Value ChangeThe Distribution of ValuesHow Values ChangeThe Consequences of Value ChangeSocial Change and Value ChangeSuggested ReadingsNotesCHAPTER 6. Issues and Ideological OrientationsSocioeconomic Issues and the StateCultural IssuesForeign Policy OpinionsLeft/Right OrientationsPublic Opinion and Political ChangeSuggested ReadingsNotesPART III. THE ELECTORAL CONNECTIONCHAPTER 7. Elections and Political PartiesThe History of Party SystemsFour Contemporary Party SystemsThe Structure of Political AlignmentsParty Systems TodaySuggested ReadingsNotesCHAPTER 8. The Social Bases of Party SupportThe Logic of Social Groups and VotingSocial Class and the VoteWhy Is Class Voting Decreasing?Religion and the VoteOther Social Group DifferencesThe Transformation of Social CleavagesSuggested ReadingsNotesCHAPTER 9. Partisanship and VotingA Sociopsychological Model of VotingPartisan AttitudesThe Consequences of PartisanshipPartisan DealignmentCauses of DealignmentThe Consequences of DealignmentCognitive Mobilization and ApartisansPolitics in a Dealigned EraSuggested ReadingsNotesCHAPTER 10. Attitudes and Voting ChoicePrinciples of Issue VotingPosition Issues and the VotePolicy Cleavages and the VotePerformance Issues and the VoteCandidate Images and the VoteThe End of the Causal FunnelOne Electorate or Many?Citizen Politics and Voting BehaviorSuggested ReadingsNotesCHAPTER 11. Political RepresentationCollective CorrespondenceDyadic CorrespondenceThe Party Government ModelThe Impact of RepresentationSuggested ReadingsNotesPART IV. DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURECHAPTER 12. Citizens and the Democratic ProcessThe Types of Political SupportDeclining Confidence in AuthoritiesViews of Political InstitutionsSupport for a Democratic RegimeCommunity SupportDissatisfied DemocratsThe New Style of Democratic PoliticsSuggested ReadingsNotesAppendix A: Statistical PrimerAppendix B: Major Data SourcesAppendix C: 2014 International Social Survey CodebookReferencesIndex

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