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The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior by Russell J. Dalton, ISBN-13: 978-0199566013
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- Publisher: Oxford University Press; Illustrated edition (September 7, 2009)
- Language: English
- 1008 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199566011
- ISBN-13: 978-0199566013
What does democracy expect of its citizens, and how do the citizenry match these expectations? This Oxford Handbook examines the role of the citizen in contemporary politics, based on essays from the world’s leading scholars of political behavior research. The recent expansion of democracy has both given new rights and created new responsibilities for the citizenry. These political changes are paralleled by tremendous advances in our empirical knowledge of citizens and their behaviors through the institutionalization of systematic, comparative study of contemporary publics–ranging from the advanced industrial democracies to the emerging democracies of Central and Eastern Europe, to new survey research on the developing world. These essays describe how citizens think about politics, how their values shape their behavior, the patterns of participation, the sources of vote choice, and how public opinion impacts on governing and public policy.
This is the most comprehensive review of the cross-national literature of citizen behavior and the relationship between citizens and their governments. It will become the first point of reference for scholars and students interested in these key issues.
Table of Contents:
Preface
vii
About the Contributors
xiii
PART I INTRODUCTION
Citizens and Political Behavior
3(26)
Russell J. Dalton
Hans-Dieter Klingemann
PART II MASS BELIEF SYSTEMS AND COMMUNICATION
Political Socialization
29(16)
M. Kent Jennings
Belief Systems and Political Decision Making
45(20)
James H. Kuklinski
Buddy Peyton
Elite Beliefs and the Theory of Democratic Elitism
65(15)
Mark Peffley
Robert Rohrschneider
Political Psychology and Choice
80(20)
Diana C. Mutz
Information, Persuasion, and Political Communication Networks
100(23)
Robert Huckfeldt
Political Communication
123(21)
Holli A. Semetko
Perspectives on Mass Belief Systems and Communication
144(17)
Philip E. Converse
PART III MODERNIZATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
The Political Culture Paradigm
161(24)
Dieter Fuchs
Individual Modernity
185(21)
Christian Welzel
Left-Right Orientations
206(17)
Peter Mair
Postmaterialist Values and the Shift from Survival to Self-Expression Values
223(17)
Ronald Inglehart
Clash of Values across Civilizations
240(19)
Takashi Inoguchi
Democratization: Perspectives from Global Citizenries
259(24)
Doh Chull Shin
Perspectives on political behavior in time and space
283(22)
Richard Rose
PART IV POLITICAL VALUES
Political Values
305(18)
Loek Halman
Political Intolerance in the Context of Democratic Theory
323(19)
James L. Gibson
Social and Political Trust
342(20)
Kenneth Newton
The Welfare State: Values, Policy Preferences, and Performance Evaluations
362(21)
Staffan Kumlin
Citizen Opinion on Foreign Policy and World Politics
383(19)
Richard C. Eichenberg
Norms of Citizenship
402(16)
Jan W. Van Deth
Democratic Values
418(19)
Jacques Thomassen
PART V NEW DEBATES IN POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
An Institutional Theory of Political Choice
437(20)
Paul M. Sniderman
Matthew S. Levendusky
The Decline of Social Class?
457(24)
Oddbjørn Knutsen
The Effects of Religion and Religiosity on Voting Behavior
481(23)
Yilmaz Esmer
Thorleif Pettersson
Race and Political Behavior
504(14)
Shamit Saggar
Economic Models of Voting
518(20)
Michael S. Lewis-Beck
Mary Stegmaier
New Dimensions of Political Cleavage
538(19)
Kevin Deegan-Krause
Partisanship Reconsidered
557(14)
Soren Holmberg
The Personalization of Politics
571(18)
Ian McAllister
The Interaction of Structures and Voter Behavior
589(21)
Christopher J. Anderson
Perspectives on Electoral Behavior
610(11)
Anthony Heath
PART VI POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
Turnout in Elections
621(15)
Andre Blais
Political Activism and Party Members
636(19)
Susan E. Scarrow
Social Capital
655(20)
Dietlind Stolle
Civil Society and Democratization
675(18)
Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski
Social Movements
693(15)
Ruud Koopmans
The Spread of Protest Politics
708(16)
Dieter Rucht
New Feminist Challenges to the Study of Political Engagement
724(20)
Pippa Norris
New Modes of Campaigning
744(21)
Rudiger Schmitt-Beck
E-Government and Democracy
765(18)
Michael Margolis
Perspectives on Political Participation
783(16)
Max Kaase
PART VII DOES PUBLIC OPINION MATTER?
The Relationship between Public Opinion and Policy
799(19)
Christopher Wlezien
Stuart N. Soroka
Political Elites
818(15)
Jean Blondel
Ferdinand Muller-Rommel
Political Representation and Democracy
833(17)
Bernhard Weßels
Perspectives on Representation: Asking the Right Questions and Getting the Right Answers
850(15)
James Stimson
PART VIII THE METHODOLOGY OF COMPARATIVE POLITICAL BEHAVIOR RESEARCH
Research Resources in Comparative Political Behavior
865(31)
Miki Caul Kittilson
Comparative Opinion Surveys
896(14)
John Curtice
Methods of Elite Research
910(19)
Ursula Hoffmann-Lange
Index
929
Russell J. Dalton is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. He has been a Fulbright Professor at the University of Mannheim, a German Marshall Research Fellow and a POSCO Fellow at the East/West Center. His scholarly interests include comparative political behavior, political parties, social movements, and empirical democratic theory.
Hans-Dieter Klingemann is Professor Emeritus at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin. His publications comprise numerous books and well above a hundred journal articles or book chapters (author or co-author).
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