Russell J. Dalton 
Citizen Politics [EPUB ebook] 
Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies

‘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.

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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

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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.