The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior

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

• ISBN13: 9780199270125
• ISBN10: 0199270120
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, PoliticalEconomy, Contextual Political Analysis, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguishedinternational group of specialists in their respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines. Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative grounds of political values. Continental andpost-modern influences jostle with ones from economics, history, sociology, and the law. Feminist concerns with embodiment make us look at old problems in new ways, and challenges of new technologies open whole new vistas for political theory. This Handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the lively and contested field of political theory, and will help set the agenda for the field for years to come. Forty-five chapters by distinguished political theorists look at the state of the field, where it has been in the recentpast, and where it is likely to go in future. They examine political theory's edges as well as its core, the globalizing context of the field, and the challenges presented by social, economic, and technological changes.

Author Biography

Russell J. Dalton is Professor in the Center for the Study of Democracy 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 earned his academic degrees from the University of Cologne and from the University of Mannheim. He has held academic positions at the University of Cologne (1966-74), the Center for Survey Research (ZUMA), Mannheim (1974-80), the Free University of Berlin (1980-2002), the Collegium Civitas, Warsaw (2001-2005), and the Social Science Research Center Berlin (1989-2003). His publications comprise numerous books and well above a hundred journal articles or book chapters (author or co-author).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Russell Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann: Citizen Attitudes and Political Behavior

Mass Belief Systems and Communication

Political Socialization

Belief Systems and Political Decision Making

Elite Beliefs and the Theory of Democractic Elitism

Political Psychology and Choice

Information, Persuasion, and Political Communication networks

Political Communication

Perspectives on Mass Belief Systems and Communication

Modernization and Social Change

The Political Culture Paradigm

Individual Modernity

Left-Right Orientations

Postmaterialist Values and the Shift from Survival to Self-Expression Values

Clash of Values across Civilizations

Democratization: Perspectives from Global Citizenries

Perspectives on Political Behavior in Time and Space

Political Values

Political Values

Political Intolerance in the Context of Democratic Theory

Social and Political Trust

The Welfare State: Values, Policy Preferences, and Performance Evaluations

Citizen Opinion on Foreign Policy and World Politics

Norms of Citizenship

Democratic Values

New Debates in Political Behavior

An Institutional Theory of Political Choice

The Decline of Social Class?

The Effects of Religion and Religiosity on Voting Behavior

Race and Political Behavior

Economic Models of Voting

New Dimensions of Political Cleavage

Partisanship Reconsidered

The Personalization of Politics

The Interaction of Structures and Voter Behavior

Perspectives on Electoral Behavior

Political Participation

Turnout in Elections

Political Activism and Party Members

Social Capital

Civil Society and Democratization

Social Movements

The Spread of Protest Politics

New Feminist Challenges to the Study of Political Engagement

New Modes of Campaigning

E-Government and Democracy

Perspectives on Political Participation

Does Public Opinion Matter?

The Relationship between Public Opinion and Policy

Political Elites

Political Representation and Democracy

Perspectives on Representation: Asking the Right Questions and Getting the Right Answers

The Methodology of Comparative Political Behavior Research

Research Resources in Comparative Political Behavior

Comparative Opinion Surveys

Methods of Elite Research

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