The first edition of this book offered the theory that the "quality" of citizen politics is alive and well whereas the institutions of democracy are in disarray. The author argued that citizens are not as uninvolved, uninformed and undemocratic as thier critics suggest. With the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Empire, there arose an unbridled and uncritical enthusiasm for democratic politics. This edition expands on the original theory and also highlights the newly-found strengths and challenges today's democracy must face. The book introduces the concept of citizen political behaviour, the questions that remain about it, and the implications of it. The analysis focuses on the United States, Great Britain, Germany and France in a broad cross-national context.
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Russell J. Dalton is professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine and the author, co-author, or editor of many books, including Democratic Challenges, Democratic Choices: The Erosion of Political Support in Advanced Industrial Democracies (2004), Critical Masses: Citizens, Environmental Destruction, and Nuclear Weapons Production in Russia and the United States (1999), and The Green Rainbow: Environmental Interest Groups in Western Europe (1994).
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Russell Dalton is a professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine. His research and teaching focuses on the role of citizens in the political process, and how democracies can better address public preferences and the democratic ideal. He has authored or edited more than twenty books and more than a 150 research articles. Dalton has been awarded the Developing Scholar Award by Florida State University, a Fulbright Research Fellowship, Scholar-in-Residence at the Barbra Streisand Center, German Marshall Fund Research Fellowship, the POSCO Fellowship at the East West Center, and the UCI Emeriti Award for Faculty Mentorship. He was founding director of the Center for the Study of Democracy at UC Irvine.
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An overly academic look at civic engagement,
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This book had potential. Civic engagement is a rapidly growing area of study in political science. Instead, I found it to be a boring and overly "academic" look at public opinion and mobilization. It is not an "accessible" book.
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I'm not terribly sure that I share the optimism that is a feature of Russell Dalton's Citizen Politics that the average person on the street has a meaningful impact on the political process throughout Western Europe and the United States, given how politically unaware our society is, but overall its' very well written and conscience which isn't something that can be said about many graduate level textbooks. Many of the chapters are quick reads that are chocked full of information about how vital citizens are to the development of the political process in industrialized democracies...though at no point does this information overwhelm the reader like many grad texts that are often more concerned about how many 50 dollar words they can spread round than presenting meaningful information and debate. Bravo for the effort, Mr. Dalton.
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Very thin book with very glossy cover.
My having opened and read it was very apparent by the creases that quickly appeared on such a glossy spine.
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This is a book about you and me-as citizens, voters, protesters, campaign workers, community activists, party members, and political spectators-we are the driving force of the democratic process. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postmaterial goals, specific issue opinions, dealignment trend, contemporary party systems, postmaterial issues, contemporary electorates, party government model, postmaterial values, classic democratic theory, vanced industrial democracies, collective correspondence, politics cleavages, religious voting, sociopsychological model, cognitive mobilization, political satisfaction, political cues, voting differences, party cues, voting index, figure entries, election study, electoral research, sociopolitical space, partisan dealignment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Great Britain, World Values Survey, New York, European Values Survey, American National Election Study, New Left, National Front, American National Election Studies, New Right, New Zealand, Republican Party, Cold War, Federal Republic, Western Europe, World War, Eastern Europe, Old Left, Warren Miller, Activity Union, Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, Great Depression, House of Commons, International Social Survey Program, Ronald Reagan New!
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postmaterial goals, specific issue opinions, dealignment trend, contemporary party systems, postmaterial issues, contemporary electorates, party government model, postmaterial values, classic democratic theory, vanced industrial democracies, collective correspondence, politics cleavages, religious voting, sociopsychological model, cognitive mobilization, political satisfaction, political cues, voting differences, party cues, voting index, figure entries, election study, electoral research, sociopolitical space, partisan dealignment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Great Britain, World Values Survey, New York, European Values Survey, American National Election Study, New Left, National Front, American National Election Studies, New Right, New Zealand, Republican Party, Cold War, Federal Republic, Western Europe, World War, Eastern Europe, Old Left, Warren Miller, Activity Union, Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, Great Depression, House of Commons, International Social Survey Program, Ronald Reagan New!
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