Table of Contents

Tables and Figures
Preface
1. Introduction
I. POLITICS AND THE PUBLIC
2. The Nature of Mass Beliefs
3. How We Participate
4. Who Participates?
II. POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS
5. Values in Change
6. Issues and Ideological Orientations
III. THE ELECTORAL CONNECTION
7. Elections and Political Parties
8. The Social Bases of Party Support
9. Partisanship and Voting
10. Attitudes and Voting Choice
11. Political Representation
IV. DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURE
12. Citizens and the Democratic Process
Appendix A: Statistical Primer
Appendix B: Major Data Sources
Appendix C: World Values Survey Codebook
References
Index

About the Author

Russell Dalton is a professor at the University of California, Irvine and former director of the Center for the Study of Democracy. His research and teaching focuses on the changing nature of citizen politics in contemporary democracies. He has received a Fulbright Research Fellowship, a German Marshall Fund Fellowship, Barbra Streisand Center Fellowship and POSCO Research Fellowship. He has served on the boards of the American National Election Study, the British Election Study and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. Among his recent authored or edited books are The Apartisan American (2012), Political Parties and Democratic Linkage (2011), Citizens, Context and Choice (2011), The Good Citizen (2009), Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior (2007), Citizens, Democracy and Markets around the Pacific Rim (2006), Democratic Challenges, Democratic Choices: The Erosion of Political Support in Advanced Industrial Democracies (2004), Democracy Transformed? The Expansion of Citizen Access in Advanced Industrial Democracies (2003), and Parties without Partisans: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies (co-editor, 2001). He has also appeared in six feature-length Hollywood movies.

Reviews

“Dalton′s book does an excellent job of making behavioral methods and statistics accessible for undergrads.”
*Robert Hinckley*

“Dalton′s use of descriptive data and figures as well his emphasis on the overall themes of social change, weakening cleavages, and cognitive mobilization make the book an especially effective tool for teaching comparative public opinion and political behavior.”
*Matthew Singer*

“Citizen Politics does an outstanding job of surveying a vast literature dealing with political behavior.”
*Laron K. Williams*