The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior

by Dalton, Russell J.; Klingemann, Hans-Dieter

• ISBN13: 9780191577178
• ISBN10: 0191577170
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2011-06-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Part I: INTRODUCTION
1. Citizen Attitudes and Political Behavior, Russell Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann
Part II: MASS BELIEF SYSTEMS AND COMMUNICATION
2. Political Socialization, M. Kent Jennings
3. Belief Systems and Political Decision Making, James H. Kuklinski and Buddy Peyton
4. Elite Beliefs and the Theory of Democractic Elitism, Mark Peffley and Robert Rohrschneider
5. Political Psychology and Choice, Diana C. Mutz
6. Information, Persuasion, and Political Communication Networks, Robert Huckfeldt
7. Political Communication, Holli A. Semetko
8. Perspectives on Mass Belief Systems and Communication, Philip E. Converse
Part III: MODERNIZATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
9. The Political Culture Paradigm, Dieter Fuchs
10. Individual Modernity, Christian Welzel
11. Left-Right Orientations, Peter Mair
12. Postmaterialist Values and the Shift from Survival to Self-Expression Values, Ronald Inglehart
13. Clash of Values across Civilizations, Takashi Inogouchi
14. Democratization: Perspectives from Global Citizenries, Doh Chull Shin
15. Perspectives on Political Behavior in Time and Space, Richard Rose
Part IV: POLITICAL VALUES
16. Political Values, Loek Halman
17. Political Intolerance in the Context of Democratic Theory, James Gibson
18. Social and Political Trust, Kenneth Newton
19. The Welfare State: Values, Policy Preferences, and Performance Evaluations, Staffan Kumlin
20. Citizen Opinion on Foreign Policy and World Politics, Richard Eichenberg
21. Norms of Citizenship, Jan W. van Deth
22. Democratic Values, Jacques Thomassen
Part V: NEW DEBATES IN POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
23. An Institutional Theory of Political Choice, Paul M. Sniderman and Matthew S. Levendusky
24. The Decline of Social Class?, Oddbj?rn Knutsen
25. The Effects of Religion and Religiosity on Voting Behavior, Yilmaz Esmer and Thorleif Pettersson
26. Race and Political Behavior, Shamit Saggar
27. Economic Models of Voting, Michael S. Lewis-Beck and Mary Stegmaier
28. New Dimensions of Political Cleavage, Kevin Deegan-Krause
29. Partisanship Reconsidered, S?ren Holmberg
30. The Personalization of Politics, Ian McAllister
31. The Interaction of Structures and Voter Behavior, Christopher J. Anderson
32. Perspectives on Electoral Behavior, Anthony Heath
Part VI: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
33. Turnout in Elections, Andr? Blais
34. Political Activism and Party Members, Susan E. Scarrow
35. Social Capital, Dietlind Stolle
36. Civil Society and Democratization, Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski
37. Social Movements, Ruud Koopmans
38. The Spread of Protest Politics, Dieter Rucht
39. New Feminist Challenges to the Study of Political Engagement, Pippa Norris
40. New Modes of Campaigning, R?diger Schmitt-Beck
41. E-Government and Democracy, Michael Margolis
42. Perspectives on Political Participation, Max Kaase
Part VII: DOES PUBLIC OPINION MATTER?
43. The Relationship between Public Opinion and Policy, Christopher Wlezien and Stuart N. Soroka
44. Political Elites, Jean Blondel and Ferdinand M?ller-Rommel
45. Political Representation and Democracy, Bernhard Wessels
46: Perspectives on Representation: Asking the Right Questions and Getting the Right Answers, James Stimson
Part VIII: THE METHODOLOGY OF COMPARATIVE POLITICAL BEHAVIOR RESEARCH
47. Research Resources in Comparative Political Behavior, Miki Caul Kittilson
48. Comparative Opinion Surveys, John Curtice
49. Methods of Elite Research, Ursula Hoffmann-Lange