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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. With helpful restructuring, the new fifth edition of Citizen Politics is even more student-friendly while continuing 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, Citizen Politics now explores new forms of political activity, such as Internet-based activism, and new forms of political consumerism. All of the chapters have been updated with the latest research and empirical evidence, including new data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems project, the World Values Survey, the International Social Survey Program, and the British and German national election studies. Further, Dalton devotes more attention to current academic debates over the decline of participation, the erosion of political support, and the implications for democracy. New Data Supplement! Give your students a firsthand opportunity to understand the process of public opinion research. A data supplement from the International Social Survey Program, along with matching SPSS files, are available online at college.cqpress.com/dalton.

Tables and Figures	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The Comparative Study of Public Opinion	p. 3
Choosing Nations to Compare	p. 4
A New Style of Citizen Politics	p. 6
Suggested Readings	p. 10
Notes	p. 10
Politics and the Public	p. 11
The Nature of Mass Beliefs	p. 13
The Superciti... MOREzen	p. 13
The Unsophisticated Citizen	p. 14
Elitist Theory of Democracy	p. 17
Political Sophistication Reconsidered	p. 18
Politics and the Public	p. 28
Suggested Readings	p. 30
Notes	p. 31
How We Participate	p. 32
Modes of Participation	p. 33
Voting	p. 36
Campaign Activity	p. 40
Direct Contacting	p. 44
Communal Activity	p. 45
Protest and Contentious Action	p. 48
Wired Activism	p. 52
Changing Publics and Political Participation	p. 53
Suggested Readings	p. 55
Notes	p. 55
Who Participates?	p. 57
The Civic Voluntarism Model	p. 57
Who Votes?	p. 59
Campaign Activity	p. 64
Direct Contacting	p. 65
Communal Activity	p. 66
Who Protests?	p. 66
Internet Activism	p. 69
Comparing the Correlates of Different Activities	p. 70
Participation and Contemporary Democracies	p. 72
Suggested Readings	p. 75
Notes	p. 75
Political Orientations	p. 77
Values in Change	p. 79
The Nature of Value Change	p. 80
The Distribution of Values	p. 84
The Process of Value Change	p. 86
The Consequences of Value Change	p. 91
Value Change and Value Stability	p. 93
Suggested Readings	p. 95
Notes	p. 95
Issues and Ideological Orientations	p. 97
Domestic Policy Opinions	p. 98
Foreign Policy Opinions	p. 113
Left/Right Orientations	p. 115
Public Opinion and Political Change	p. 117
Suggested Readings	p. 119
Notes	p. 120
The Electoral Connection	p. 121
Elections and Political Parties	p. 123
An Overview of Four Party Systems	p. 124
The History of Party Systems	p. 128
The Structure of Political Alignments	p. 132
Contemporary Party Systems	p. 139
Suggested Readings	p. 140
Notes	p. 141
The Social Bases of Party Support	p. 143
The Social Group Model of Voting	p. 143
Social Class and the Vote	p. 145
Why Is Class Voting Decreasing?	p. 151
Religion and the Vote	p. 152
Other Social Group Differences	p. 160
New Politics and the Vote	p. 161
The Transformation of Social Cleavages	p. 166
Suggested Readings	p. 168
Notes	p. 169
Partisanship and Voting	p. 170
A Sociopsychological Model of Voting	p. 170
Partisan Attitudes	p. 172
Learning Partisanship	p. 174
The Impact of Partisanship	p. 178
Partisan Dealignment	p. 180
Consequences of Dealignment	p. 183
Causes of Dealignment	p. 185
Politics in a Dealigned Era	p. 189
Suggested Readings	p. 190
Notes	p. 191
Attitudes and Electoral Behavior	p. 193
Principles of Issue Voting	p. 194
Position Issues and the Vote	p. 198
Performance Issues and the Vote	p. 205
Candidate Images and the Vote	p. 207
The End of the Causal Funnel	p. 208
One Electorate or Many?	p. 211
Citizen Politics and Voting Behavior	p. 213
Suggested Readings	p. 215
Notes	p. 215
Political Representation	p. 218
Collective Correspondence	p. 219
Dyadic Correspondence	p. 223
The Party Government Model	p. 226
Patterns of Political Representation	p. 231
Suggested Readings	p. 232
Notes	p. 233
Democracy and the Future	p. 235
Citizens and the Democratic Process	p. 237
Aspects of Political Support	p. 239
Declining Confidence in Authorities	p. 241
Views of Political Institutions	p. 244
Support for a Democratic Regime	p. 248
Community Support	p. 250
Dissatisfied Democrats	p. 251
Suggested Readings	p. 258
Notes	p. 259
Statistical Primer	p. 261
Major Data Sources	p. 267
2004 International Social Survey Codebook	p. 272
References	p. 299
Index	p. 323
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Russell J. Dalton is professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine

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