The Social Logic Of Politics

by Zuckerman, Alan S.

• ISBN13: 9781592131471
• ISBN10: 1592131476
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-30
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

Using classic theories to explain individuals' political decisions, this volume examines what influences these decisions. Supported by the research of the Columbia school of electoral sociology, this view is contrasted with rational choice theory and the Michigan school of electoral analysis. Written by a range of political scientists, this volume advances theory and method in the study of political behavior and returns the social logic of politics to the heart of political science.

Author Biography

Alan S. Zuckerman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Brown University and Research Professor, DIW-German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	ix
Preface and Acknowledgments	xv
About the Contributors	xxi
Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological Context
Returning to the Social Logic of Politics	3	(18)
Alan S. Zuckerman
Individuals, Dyads, and Networks: Autoregressive Patterns of Political Influence	21	(30)
Robert Huckfeldt
Paul E. Johnson
John Sprague
I. Families as Sources of Strong Political Ties
Political Similarity and Influence between Husbands and Wives	51	(24)
Laura Stoker
M. Kent Jennings
Do Couples Support the Same Political Parties? Sometimes: Evidence from British and German Household Panel Surveys	75	(20)
Alan S. Zuckerman
Jennifer Fitzgerald
Josip Dasovic
Family Ties: Understanding the Intergenerational Transmission of Political Participation	95	(22)
Sidney Verba
Kay Lehman Schlozman
Nancy Burns
II. Friends, Workmates, Neighbors, and Political Contexts: The Effects of Weak Ties on Electoral Choices and Political Participation
Changing Class Locations and Partisanship in Germany	117	(15)
Ulrich Kohler
Choosing Alone? The Social Network Basis of Modern Political Choice	132	(20)
Jeffrey Levine
Friends and Politics: Linking Diverse Friendship Networks to Political Participation	152	(19)
Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz
Networks, Gender, and the Use of State Authority: Evidence from a Study of Arab Immigrants in Detroit	171	(13)
Ann Chih Lin
Putting Voters in their Places: Local Context and Voting in England and Wales, 1997	184	(25)
Ron J. Johnston
Charles J. Pattie
Party Identification, Local Partisan Contexts, and the Acquisition of Participatory Attitudes	209	(19)
James G. Gimpel
J. Celeste Lay
Macro-Politics and Micro-Behavior: Mainstream Politics and the Frequency of Political Discussion in Contemporary Democracies	228	(23)
Christopher J. Anderson
Aida Paskeviciute
III. The Social Logic of Politics: Looking Ahead
Agent-Based Explanations for the Survival of Disagreement in Social Networks	251	(18)
Paul E. Johnson
Robert Huckfeldt
Turnout in a Small World	269	(20)
James H. Fowler
Notes	289	(18)
References	307	(24)
Index	331