Citizen Politics and Democracy

Russell J. 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 numerous awards and fellowships, including 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. He has also appeared in eleven feature-length Hollywood movies.Timothy T. Hellwig is a professor of political science at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, where he specializes in comparative politics and mass political behavior. He is the author or editor of 4 previous books.

• 1. IntroductionComparing Public Opinion across NationsChoosing Nations to Compare: Supply, Demand and Citizen PoliticsA New Style of Citizen PoliticsCitizen Politics and Democracy in the 21st CenturySuggested ReadingsPART I: POLITICS AND THE PUBLIC2. The Nature of Mass BeliefsThe SupercitizenReality Versus a Theoretical IdealElitist Theory of DemocracyPolitical Sophistication ReconsideredPolitics and the PublicSuggested Readings3. How We ParticipateModes of ParticipationVotingCampaign ActivityDirect ContactingCommunal ActivityProtest and Contentious ActionOnline ActivismChanging Publics and Political ParticipationSuggested Readings4. Who Participates?The Civic Voluntarism ModelWho Votes?Campaign ActivityDirect ContactingCommunal ActivityWho Protests?Online ActivismComparing the Correlates of Different ActivitiesParticipation and the Democratic ProcessSuggested ReadingsPART II. POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS5. Values in ChangeThe Nature of Value ChangeThe Distribution of ValuesHow Values ChangeThe Consequences of Value ChangeLooking Toward the FutureSuggested Readings6. Issues and Ideological OrientationsSocioeconomic Issues and the StateCultural IssuesForeign Policy OpinionsLeft/Right OrientationsPublic Opinion and Political ChangeSuggested ReadingsPART III. THE ELECTORAL CONNECTION7. Elections and Political PartiesThe History of Party SystemsFour Contemporary Party SystemsThe Structure of Political AlignmentsThe U.S. Political SpaceThe Political Space Cross-nationallyParty Systems TodaySuggested Readings8. The Social Bases of Party SupportThe Logic of Social Group VotingSocial Class and the VoteThe Realignment of the Class CleavageReligion and the VoteOther Social Group DifferencesThe Transformation of Social CleavagesSuggested Readings9. Partisanship and VotingA Sociopsychological Model of VotingPartisan AttitudesThe Consequences of PartisanshipPartisan DealignmentCauses of DealignmentThe Consequences of DealignmentCognitive Mobilization and ApartisansPolitics in a Dealigned EraSuggested Readings10. 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 Readings11. Political RepresentationRepresentation as Supply and DemandDyadic CorrespondenceThe Party Government ModelThe Impact of RepresentationSuggested ReadingsPART IV. DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURE12. 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 PoliticsCitizen Politics and DemocracySuggested ReadingsAppendix A: Statistical PrimerAppendix B: Major Data Sources

“Citizen Politics has been the mainstay of my teaching for over 20 years. It is not only by far the best available text on comparative political behaviour but also makes a scholarly contribution to current knowledge. Each new edition engages with current political events and incorporates the latest research, whilst using the most recently available evidence for its always accessible figures and tables. The literary style has also remained clear and informative. On this occasion, there is also the addition of an excellent new co-author, Tim Hellwig. This edition should be even better!”