Citizen Politics: Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies - Softcover

Russell J. Dalton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1889119326 ISBN 13: 9781889119328

Publisher: Chatham House Pub, 2002

Synopsis

This is a book about people as citizens, voters, protesters, campaign workers, community activists party members, and political spectators. Thorough, well-written and enormously informative, Citizen Politics is a valuable opportunity to examine political behavior in the United States within the context of other industrial democracies. Focusing on the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and France in a broad cross-national context Russell Dalton offers the argument that the quality of citizen politics is alive and well whereas the institutions of democracy are in disarray.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction 

PART ONE: POLITICS AND THE PUBLIC
2. The Nature of Mass Beliefs
3. How We Participate
4. Who Participates

PART TWO: POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS
5. Values in Change
6. Issues and Ideological Orientations

PART THREE: THE ELECTORAL CONNECTION
7. Elections and Political Parties
8. The Social Bases of Party Support
9. Partisanship and Electoral Behavior
10. Attitudes and Electoral Behavior
11. Political Representation

PART FOUR: DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURE
12. Citizens and the Democratic Process

About the Author:

Russell J. Dalton is professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine and the author, co-author, or editor of many books, including Democratic Challenges, Democratic Choices: The Erosion of Political Support in Advanced Industrial Democracies (2004), Critical Masses: Citizens, Environmental Destruction, and Nuclear Weapons Production in Russia and the United States (1999), and The Green Rainbow: Environmental Interest Groups in Western Europe (1994).

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatham House Pub
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1889119326
• ISBN 13: 9781889119328
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 336