Citizen politics : public opinion and political parties in advanced industrial democracies /: public opinion and political parties in advanced industrial democracies. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Russell J. Dalton, University of California, Irvine.
• Authors: Dalton, Russell J
• Contents: List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1. Introduction; Comparing Public Opinion across Nations; Choosing Nations to Compare; A New Style of Citizen Politics; Suggested Readings; Notes; PART I. POLITICS AND THE PUBLIC; CHAPTER 2. The Nature of Citizen Beliefs; The Supercitizen; Reality versus a Theoretical Ideal; Elitist Theory of Democracy; Political Sophistication Reconsidered; Politics and the Public; Suggested Readings; Notes; CHAPTER 3. How We Participate; Modes of Participation; Voting; Campaign Activity; Direct Contacting; Communal Activity; Protest and Contentious Action; Wired Activism; Changing Publics and Political Participation; Suggested Readings; Notes; CHAPTER 4. Who Participates?; The Civic Voluntarism Model; Who Votes?; Campaign Activity; Direct Contacting; Communal Activity; Who Protests?; Internet Activism; Comparing the Correlates of Different Activities; Participation and the Democratic Process; Suggested Readings; Notes; PART II. POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS; CHAPTER 5. Values in Change; The Nature of Value Change; The Distribution of Values; How Values Change; The Consequences of Value Change; Social Change and Value Change; Suggested Readings; Notes; CHAPTER 6. Issues and Ideological Orientations; Socioeconomic Issues and the State; Cultural Issues; Foreign Policy Opinions; Left/Right Orientations; Public Opinion and Political Change; Suggested Readings; Notes; PART III. THE ELECTORAL CONNECTION; CHAPTER 7. Elections and Political Parties; The History of Party Systems; Four Contemporary Party Systems; The Structure of Political Alignments; Party Systems Today; Suggested Readings; Notes; CHAPTER 8. The Social Bases of Party Support; The Logic of Social Groups and Voting; Social Class and the Vote; Why Is Class Voting Decreasing?; Religion and the Vote; Other Social Group Differences; The Transformation of Social Cleavages; Suggested Readings; Notes; CHAPTER 9. Partisanship and Voting; A Sociopsychological Model of Voting; Partisan Attitudes; The Consequences of Partisanship; Partisan Dealignment; Causes of Dealignment; The Consequences of Dealignment; Cognitive Mobilization and Apartisans; Politics in a Dealigned Era; Suggested Readings; Notes; CHAPTER 10. Attitudes and Voting Choice; Principles of Issue Voting; Position Issues and the Vote; Policy Cleavages and the Vote; Performance Issues and the Vote; Candidate Images and the Vote; The End of the Causal Funnel; One Electorate or Many?; Citizen Politics and Voting Behavior; Suggested Readings; Notes; CHAPTER 11. Political Representation; Collective Correspondence; Dyadic Correspondence; The Party Government Model; The Impact of Representation; Suggested Readings; Notes; PART IV. DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURE; CHAPTER 12. Citizens and the Democratic Process; The Types of Political Support; Declining Confidence in Authorities; Views of Political Institutions; Support for a Democratic Regime; Community Support; Dissatisfied Democrats; The New Style of Democratic Politics; Suggested Readings; Notes; Appendix A: Statistical Primer; Appendix B: Major Data Sources; Appendix C: 2014 International Social Survey Codebook; References; Index;
• Edition: Seventh Edition
• Publisher Details: Washington DC : CQ Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (360 pages)
• Subjects: 324.2; Political parties; Political participation; Democracy; Public opinion; Comparative government
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781544351797; 1544351798
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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