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• List of Tables and Figures
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• CHAPTER 1 • Introduction
• Comparing Public Opinion across Nations
• Choosing Nations to Compare
• A New Style of Citizen Politics
• Suggested Readings
• Notes
• PART ONE • POLITICS AND THE PUBLIC
• CHAPTER 2 • The Nature of Citizen Beliefs
• The Supercitizen
• Reality versus a Theoretical Ideal
• Elitist Theory of Democracy
• Political Sophistication Reconsidered
• Politics and the Public
• Suggested Readings
• Notes
• CHAPTER 3 • How We Participate
• Modes of Participation
• Voting
• Campaign Activity
• Direct Contacting
• Communal Activity
• Protest and Contentious Action
• Wired Activism
• Changing Publics and Political Participation
• Suggested Readings
• Notes
• CHAPTER 4 • Who Participates?
• The Civic Voluntarism Model
• Who Votes?
• Campaign Activity
• Direct Contacting
• Communal Activity
• Who Protests?
• Internet Activism
• Comparing the Correlates of Different Activities
• Participation and the Democratic Process
• Suggested Readings
• Notes
• PART TWO • POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS
• CHAPTER 5 • Values in Change
• The Nature of Value Change
• The Distribution of Values
• How Values Change
• The Consequences of Value Change
• Social Change and Value Change
• Suggested Readings
• Notes
• CHAPTER 6 • Issues and Ideological Orientations
• Socioeconomic Issues and the State
• Cultural Issues
• Foreign Policy Opinions
• Left/Right Orientations
• Public Opinion and Political Change
• Suggested Readings
• Notes
• PART THREE • THE ELECTORAL CONNECTION
• CHAPTER 7 • Elections and Political Parties
• The History of Party Systems
• Four Contemporary Party Systems
• The Structure of Political Alignments
• Party Systems Today
• Suggested Readings
• Notes
• CHAPTER 8 • The Social Bases of Party Support
• The Logic of Social Groups and Voting
• Social Class and the Vote
• Why Is Class Voting Decreasing?
• Religion and the Vote
• Other Social Group Differences
• The Transformation of Social Cleavages
• Suggested Readings
• Notes
• CHAPTER 9 • Partisanship and Voting
• A Sociopsychological Model of Voting
• Partisan Attitudes
• The Consequences of Partisanship
• Partisan Dealignment
• Causes of Dealignment
• The Consequences of Dealignment
• Cognitive Mobilization and Apartisans
• Politics in a Dealigned Era
• Suggested Readings
• Notes
• CHAPTER 10 • Attitudes and Voting Choice
• Principles of Issue Voting
• Position Issues and the Vote
• Policy Cleavages and the Vote
• Performance Issues and the Vote
• Candidate Images and the Vote
• The End of the Causal Funnel
• One Electorate or Many?
• Citizen Politics and Voting Behavior
• Suggested Readings
• Notes
• CHAPTER 11 • Political Representation
• Collective Correspondence
• Dyadic Correspondence
• The Party Government Model
• The Impact of Representation
• Suggested Readings
• Notes
• PART FOUR • DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURE
• CHAPTER 12 • Citizens and the Democratic Process
• The Types of Political Support
• Declining Confidence in Authorities
• Views of Political Institutions
• Support for a Democratic Regime
• Community Support
• Dissatisfied Democrats
• The New Style of Democratic Politics
• Suggested Readings
• Notes
• Appendix A: Statistical Primer
• Appendix B: Major Data Sources
• Appendix C: 2014 International Social Survey Codebook
• References
• Index