The Good Citizen: How a Younger Generation Is Reshaping American Politics - Softcover

Dalton, Russell J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506318029 ISBN 13: 9781506318028

Publisher: CQ Press, 2015

Synopsis

The Good Citizen uses a new 2014 national opinion survey to describe how Americans’ views of what it means to be a good citizen is changing. Russell J. Dalton shows that contrary to conventional wisdom, younger generations are more politically engaged, more politically tolerant, and more supportive of social justice; the young are creating new norms of citizenship that are leading to a renaissance of democratic participation. The new edition of this groundbreaking work will reshape the way we think about the American public, American youth, and the prospects for contemporary democracy. It describes Americans’ changing citizenship norms, the emergence of the Millennial Generation, how the Internet is changing participation patterns, and a new statistical primer to help students understand the survey findings.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS                                                                                                         

Chapter 1. Citizenship and the Transformation of American Society.
Chapter 2.  The Meaning and Measurement of Citizenship.
Chapter 3. Forming Citizenship Norms.
Chapter 4. Bowling Alone or Protesting with a Group.
Chapter 5.  Free Speech for Everyone?
Chapter 6. Is Government the Problem or the Solution. Solution?                         
Chapter 7. Is a Good Citizen Trustful or Sceptical of Government.
Chapter 8. In Tocqueville's Footsteps.
Chapter 9. The Two Faces of Citizenship.                                                                                                                          
Appendix: Statistical Primer

About the Author

Russell Dalton is a Research Professor at the Center for the Study of Democracy, at the University of California, Irvine. 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 Civic Culture Transformed (2014), The Apartisan American (2012), Political Parties and Democratic Linkage (2011), Citizens, Context and Choice (2011), 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 eight feature-length Hollywood movies.

About this edition

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1506318029
• ISBN 13: 9781506318028
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240