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"The book's combined focus on parties as institutions and systems,
alongside political attitudes and behaviors, is why I use it...I
have yet to find another text that accomplishes this." -Meredith
Conroy, California State University, San Bernardino Now, more than
ever, people drive the democratic process. What people think of
their government and its leaders, how (or whether) they vote, and
what they do or say about a host of political issues greatly affect
the further strengthening or erosion of democracy and democratic
ideals. This fully updated, shorter Seventh Edition of Citizen
Politics continues to offer the only truly comparative study of
political attitudes and behavior in the United States, Great
Britain, France, and Germany. In addition to its comprehensive,
thematic examination of political values, political activity,
voting, and public images of government within a cross-national
context, the updated edition of this bestseller explores how
cultural issues, populism, Trump and far right parties are
reshaping politics in contemporary democracies. All chapters have
been updated with the latest research and empirical evidence.
Further, Dalton includes recent research on citizens' political
behavior in USA, Britain, France, and Germany, as well as new
evidence from national election studies in USA 2016, Britain 2017,
France 2017, and Germany 2017.
Party identification is often considered the most important concept
in modern electoral research-yet Americans' party ties have eroded.
Today, independents comprise the largest portion of voters,
outnumbering either Democrats or Republicans. This provocative book
sheds new light on the dealignment trend with the emergence of an
independent voter Dalton is calling the Apartisan American.
Utilizing 60 years of electoral surveys, Dalton's friendly and
concise narrative shows students just who these apartisans are and
how they're introducing new volatility into electoral politics,
changing the calculus of electoral decision making, and altering
the behavior of political parties. Dalton also shows the same
dealignment trend happening in other established democracies.
Understanding these apartisans is key to understanding the 2012
election as well as party and electoral politics into the future.
In this study of the breakdown of traditional party loyalties and
voting patterns, prominent comparativists and country specialists
examine the changes now occurring in the political systems of
advanced industrial democracies. Originally published in 1985. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
In this study of the breakdown of traditional party loyalties and
voting patterns, prominent comparativists and country specialists
examine the changes now occurring in the political systems of
advanced industrial democracies. Originally published in 1985. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The process of electoral change is accelerating in contemporary
democracies, and this book explains why. The emergence of Green
parties in the 1980s and recent far right parties, Brexit and
Trump's 2016 victory are parts of this overall process. Political
Realignment tracks the evolution of citizen and elite opinions on
economic and cultural issues from the 1970s to the 2010s-and the
impact of these changes on electoral politics and public policy.
Citizen positions on these cleavages have realigned over time,
producing a similar realignment in the structure of the party
systems to represent these demands. Economic issues remain
important, now joined by divisions on cultural issues as a backlash
to modernization. Assembling an unprecedented time series of
empirical evidence, this study explains the new forces of elector
change in both Europe and the United States.
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.
This book re-evaluates Almond, Verba, and Pye's original ideas
about the shape of a civic culture that supports democracy.
Marshaling a massive amount of cross-national, longitudinal public
opinion data from the World Values Survey Association, the authors
demonstrate multiple manifestations of a deep shift in the mass
attitudes and behaviors that undergird democracy. The chapters in
this book show that in dozens of countries around the world,
citizens have turned away from allegiance toward a decidedly
'assertive' posture to politics: they have become more distrustful
of electoral politics, institutions, and representatives and are
more ready to confront elites with demands from below. Most
importantly, societies that have advanced the most in the
transition from an allegiant to an assertive model of citizenship
are better-performing democracies - in terms of both accountable
and effective governance.
East Asia is one of the most dynamic areas of political change in
the world today-what role do citizens play in these processes of
change? Drawing upon a unique set of coordinated public opinion
surveys conducted by the World Values Survey, this book provides a
dramatically new image of the political cultures of East Asia. Most
East Asian citizens have strong democratic aspirations, even in
still autocratic nations. Most East Asians support liberal market
reforms, even in nations where state socialism has been dominant.
The books findings thus provide a new perspective on the political
values of Asian publics. We demonstrate that the dramatic
socioeconomic changes of the past several decades have transformed
public opinion, altering many of the social norms traditionally
identified with Asian values, and creating public support for
further political and economic modernization of the region.
Political culture in East Asia is not an impediment to change, but
creates the potential for even greater democratization and
marketization. Comparative Politics is a series for students and
teachers of political science that deals with contemporary
government and politics. The General Editors are Max Kaase,
Professor of Political Science, Vice President and Dean, School of
Humanities and Social Science, International University Bremen,
Germany; and Kenneth Newton, Professor of Comparative Politics,
University of Southampton. The series is produced in association
with the European Consortium for Political Research.
Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of
political science that deals with contemporary issues in
comparative government and politics. The General Editors are Max
Kaase, Professor of Political Science, Vice President and Dean,
School of Humanities and Social Science, International University
Bremen, Germany; and Kenneth Newton, Professor of Comparative
Politics, University of Southampton. The series is published in
association with the European Consortium for Political Research.
The popular pressures for reforms of the democratic process have
mounted across the OECD nations over the past generation. In
response, democratic institutions are changing, evolving, and
expanding in ways that may alter the structure of the democratic
process. These changes include reforms of the electoral process,
the expansion of referendums, introduction of open government
provisions, and more access points for direct political
involvement. Indeed, some observers claim that we are witnessing
the most fundamental transformation of the democratic process since
the creation of mass democracy in the early 20th Century. This
international team of distinguished scholars assembles the evidence
of how democratic institutions and processes are changing, and
considers the larger implications of these reforms for the nature
of democracy. The findings point to a new style of democratic
politics that expands the nature of democracy, but also carries
challenges for democracies to include all its citizens and govern
effectively in an environment of complex government.
What is behind the greening of European politics, and what is the
future of the green movement? This book examines environmental
interest groups at the vanguard of the green movement in Western
Europe-from Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth to national bird
societies and conservation groups-in order to answer these
questions. Russell J. Dalton chronicles the evolution of
environmental interest groups from their first mobilization wave in
the late 1800s to the present. Drawing on interviews with leaders
of nearly seventy major environmental groups in ten countries, he
challenges the conventional view of the environmental movement.
Dalton argues that environmental leaders are not the political
radicals portrayed by their opponents but are advocates of reform.
He also finds that green groups are active and varied participants
in the policy process. As the green movement has developed,
environmental interest groups have helped to define its goals and
identity. The environmental movement, says Dalton, has become an
advocate for a new green agenda that is reforming the policy
priorities of advanced industrial democracies. Dalton uses his
investigation into the green movement to shed light on social
movements and social theory. By comparing conservation and ecology
groups, he finds that an organization's values strongly influence
its political behavior. He concludes that social movements are
driven by their ideological views and political identity and that
these shape their choice of political goals, their potential for
action, and their pattern of behavior.
A new Germany has come of age, as democratic, sophisticated,
affluent, and modern as any other western nation. This remarkable
transition in little more than a generation is the central theme of
Germany Transformed. Here all the old stereotypes and conclusions
are challenged and new research is marshalled to provide a model
for an advanced democratic republic. Kendall Baker, Russell Dalton,
and Kai Hildebrandt, working with massive national election returns
from 1953 onward, explain the Old Politics of the postwar period,
which was based on the "economic miracle" and the security needs of
West Germany, and the shift in the past decade to the New Politics,
which emphasizes affluence, leisure, the quality of life, and
international accommodation. But more than elections are examined.
Rather, the authors delineate the transvaluation of the German
civic culture as democracy became embedded in the nation's
institutions, political ways, party structures, and citizen
interest in governance. By the 1970s the quiescent German of
Prussia, the Empire, and the 1930s had become the active and aware
democratic westerner. This is among the most important books about
West Germany written since the late 1950s, when the nation,
devastated by war and rebuilding its economy and political life,
was still struggling with the possibilities of democracy. It is a
political history, recounted in enormous detail and with
methodological precision, that will change perceptions about
Germany and align them with realities. Germany is now an integrated
part of a democratic western community of nations, and an
understanding of its true condition not only illuminates better the
staunch European identity but also is bound to have an impact on
American policy.
Is the party over? Parties are the central institutions of
representative democracy, but critics increasingly claim that
parties are failing to perform their democratic functions. This
book assembles unprecedented cross-national evidence to assess how
parties link the individual citizen to the formation of governments
and then to government policies. Using the Comparative Study of
Electoral Systems and other recent cross-national data, the authors
examine the workings of this party linkage process across
established and new democracies. Political parties still dominate
the electoral process in shaping the discourse of campaigns, the
selection of candidates, and mobilizing citizens to vote. Equally
striking, parties link citizen preferences to the choice of
representatives, with strong congruence between voter and party
Left/Right positions. These preferences are then translated in the
formation of coalition governments and their policies. The authors
argue that the critics of parties have overlooked the ability of
political parties to adapt to changing conditions in order to
perform their crucial linkage functions. As the context of politics
and societies have changed, so too have political parties.
Political Parties and Democratic Linkage argues that the process of
party government is alive and well in most contemporary
democracies.
Is the party over? Parties are the central institutions of
representative democracy, but critics increasingly claim that
parties are failing to perform their democratic functions.
Political Parties and Democratic Linkage assembles unprecedented
cross-national evidence to assess how parties link the individual
citizen to the formation of governments and then to government
policies. Using the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems and
other recent cross-national data, the authors examine the workings
of this party linkage process across established and new
democracies. Political parties still dominate the electoral process
in shaping the discourse of campaigns, the selection of candidates,
and mobilizing citizens to vote. Equally striking, parties link
citizen preferences to the choice of representatives, with strong
congruence between voter and party Left/Right positions. These
preferences are then translated in the formation of coalition
governments and their policies.
The authors argue that the critics of parties have overlooked the
ability of political parties to adapt to changing conditions in
order to perform their crucial linkage functions. As the context of
politics and societies have changed, so too have political parties.
Political Parties and DemocraticLinkage argues that the process of
party government is alive and well in most contemporary
democracies.
A large body of electoral studies and political party research
argues that the institutional context defines incentives that shape
citizen participation and voting choice. With the unique resources
of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, this book provides
the first systematic evaluation of this topic. A distinguished
international team of electoral scholars finds that the
institutional context has only a modest impact on citizen political
choices compared to individual level factors. Furthermore, the
formal institutional characteristics of electoral systems that have
been most emphasized by electoral studies researchers have less
impact than characteristics of the party system that are separate
from formal institutions. Advanced multi-level analyses demonstrate
that contextual effects are more often indirect and interactive,
and thus their effects are typically not apparent in single nation
election studies. The results have the potential to reshape our
understanding of how the institutional framework and context of
election matters, and the limits of institutional design in shaping
citizen electoral behavior.
Most democratic citizens today are distrustful of politicians,
political parties, and political institutions. Where once
democracies expected an allegiant public, citizens now question the
very pillars of representative democracy. Democratic Challenges,
Democratic Choices documents the erosion of political support in
virtually all advanced industrial democracies. Assembling an
unprecedented array of cross-national public opinion data, this
study traces the current challenges to democracy primary to
changing citizen values and rising expectations. These critical
citizens are concentrated among the young, the better educated, and
the politically sophisticated. At the same time, the evidence
debunks claims that such trends are a function of scandals, poor
performance, and other government failures. Changing public are
born from the successful social modernization of these nations. A
creedal passion for democracy is sweeping across the Western
democracies, and people now expect more of their governments. This
study concludes by examining the consequences of these changing
images of government. The author finds that these expectations are
making governing more difficult, but also fueling demands for
political reform. The choices that democracies make in response to
these challenges may lead to a further expansion of the democratic
process and a new relationship between citizens and their
government
The popular pressures for reforms of the democratic process have
mounted across the OECD nations over the past generation. In
response, democratic institutions are changing, evolving, and
expanding in ways that may alter the structure of the democratic
process. These changes include reforms of the electoral process,
the expansion of referendums, introduction of open government
provisions, and more access points for direct political
involvement. Indeed, some observers claim that we are witnessing
the most fundamental transformation of the democratic process since
the creation of mass democracy in the early 20th Century.
This international team of distinguished scholars assembles the
evidence of how democratic institutions and processes are changing,
and considers the larger implications of these reforms for the
nature of democracy. The findings points to a new style of
democratic politics that expands the nature of democracy, but also
carries challenges for democracies to include all its citizens and
govern effectively in an environment of complex government.
This book provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the roles that political parties perform in twenty OECD nations. It finds that parties continue to exercise their traditional roles in organizing elections and structuring the government process, but that they are losing the allegiance of a public that is increasingly non-partisan and sceptical about political parties as institutions. These findings lead to a discussion about the changing nature of representative democracy as these nations enter the 21st Century.
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