This book presents a comprehensive examination of public opinion in
the democratic world. Built around chapters that highlight key
explanatory frameworks used in understanding public opinion, the
book presents a coherent study of the subject in a comparative
perspective, emphasizing and interrogating immigration as a key
issue of high concern to most mass publics in the democratic world.
Key features of the book include: Covers several theoretical issues
and determinants of opinion such as the effects of personality, age
and life cycle, ideology, social class, partisanship, gender,
religion, ethnicity, language, and media, highlighting over time
the effects of political, social, and economic contexts. Each
chapter explores the theoretical rationale, mechanisms of effect,
and use in the scholarly literature on public opinion before
applying these to the issue of immigration comparatively and in
specific places or regions. Widely comparative using a nine-country
sample (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal,
Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America)
in the analysis of individual-level determinants of public opinion
about immigration and extending to other countries like Belgium,
Brazil, and Japan when evaluating contextual factors. This edited
volume will be essential reading for students, scholars, and
practitioners interested in public opinion, political behaviour,
voting behaviour, politics of the media, immigration, political
communication, and, more generally, democracy and comparative
politics.
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