Citizen Politics - International Student Edition

Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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“The book’s combined focus on parties as institutions and systems, alongside political attitudes and behaviors, is why I use it…I have yet to find another text that accomplishes this.”
—Meredith Conroy, California State University, San Bernardino

Now, more than ever, people drive the democratic process. What people think of their government and its leaders, how (or whether) they vote, and what they do or say about a host of political issues greatly affect the further strengthening or erosion of democracy and democratic ideals. This fully updated, shorter Seventh Edition of Citizen Politics continues to offer the only truly comparative study of political attitudes and behavior in the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany.
In addition to its comprehensive, thematic examination of political values, political activity, voting, and public images of government within a cross-national context, the updated edition of this bestseller explores how cultural issues, populism, Trump and far right parties are reshaping politics in contemporary democracies. All chapters have been updated with the latest research and empirical evidence. Further, Dalton includes recent research on citizens’ political behavior in USA, Britain, France, and Germany, as well as new evidence from national election studies in USA 2016, Britain 2017, France 2017, and Germany 2017.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-05-09
Mått152 x 228 x 19 mm
Vikt520 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor360
Upplaga7
FörlagSAGE Publications
ISBN9781544371733

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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