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9780521030441

Citizens, Politics and Social Communication: Information and Influence in an Election Campaign

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    9780521030441

  • ISBN10:

    0521030447

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-11-02
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Democratic politics is a collective enterprise, not simply because individual votes are counted to determine winners, but more fundamentally because the individual exercise of citizenship is an interdependent undertaking. Citizens argue with one another and they generally arrive at political decisions through processes of social interaction and deliberation. This book is dedicated to investigating the political implications of interdependent citizens within the context of the 1984 presidential campaign as it was experienced in the metropolitan area of South Bend, Indiana. Hence this is a community study in the fullest sense of the term. National politics is experienced locally through a series of filters unique to a particular setting and its consequences for the exercise of democratic citizenship.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
I. Democratic politics and social communication
The multiple levels of democratic politics
3(20)
A research strategy for studying electoral politics
23(22)
II. Electoral dynamics and social communication
The social dynamics of political preference
45(11)
Durability, volatility, and social influence
56(25)
Social dynamics in an election campaign
81(22)
III. Networks, political discussants, and social communication
Political discussion in an election campaign
103(21)
Networks in context: The social flow of political information
124(22)
Choice, social structure, and the informational coercion of minorities
146(13)
Discussant effects on vote choice: Intimacy, structure, and interdependence
159(32)
Gender effects on political discussion: The political networks of men and women
191(16)
IV. The organizational locus of social communication
One-party politics and the voter revisited: Strategic and behavioral bases of partisanship
207(22)
Political parties and electoral mobilization: Political structure, social structure, and the party canvass
229(28)
Alternative contexts of political preference
257(25)
Political consequences of interdependent citizens
282(11)
Bibliography 293(10)
Index 303

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