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Tables and Figures | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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The Comparative Study of Public Opinion | |
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Choosing Nations to Compare | |
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A New Style of Citizen Politics | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Notes | |
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Politics and the Public | |
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The Nature of Mass Beliefs | |
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The Supercitizen | |
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The Unsophisticated Citizen | |
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Elitist Theory of Democracy | |
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Political Sophistication Reconsidered | |
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Politics and the Public | |
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Notes | |
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How We Participate | |
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Modes of Participation | |
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Voting | |
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Campaign Activity | |
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Direct Contacting | |
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Communal Activity | |
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Protest and Contentious Action | |
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Wired Activism | |
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Changing Publics and Political Participation | |
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Notes | |
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Who Participates? | |
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The Civic Voluntarism Model | |
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Who Votes? | |
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Campaign Activity | |
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Direct Contacting | |
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Communal Activity | |
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Who Protests? | |
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Internet Activism | |
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Comparing the Correlates of Different Activities | |
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Participation and Contemporary Democracies | |
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Notes | |
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Political Orientations | |
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Values in Change | |
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The Nature of Value Change | |
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The Distribution of Values | |
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The Process of Value Change | |
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The Consequences of Value Change | |
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Value Change and Value Stability | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Notes | |
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Issues and Ideological Orientations | |
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Domestic Policy Opinions | |
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Foreign Policy Opinions | |
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Left/Right Orientations | |
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Public Opinion and Political Change | |
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Notes | |
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The Electoral Connection | |
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Elections and Political Parties | |
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An Overview of Four Party Systems | |
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The History of Party Systems | |
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The Structure of Political Alignments | |
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Contemporary Party Systems | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Notes | |
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The Social Bases of Party Support | |
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The Social Group Model of Voting | |
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Social Class and the Vote | |
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Why Is Class Voting Decreasing? | |
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Religion and the Vote | |
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Other Social Group Differences | |
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New Politics and the Vote | |
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The Transformation of Social Cleavages | |
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Notes | |
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Partisanship and Voting | |
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A Sociopsychological Model of Voting | |
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Partisan Attitudes | |
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Learning Partisanship | |
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The Impact of Partisanship | |
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Partisan Dealignment | |
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Consequences of Dealignment | |
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Causes of Dealignment | |
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Politics in a Dealigned Era | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Notes | |
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Attitudes and Electoral Behavior | |
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Principles of Issue Voting | |
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Position Issues and the Vote | |
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Performance Issues and the Vote | |
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Candidate Images and the Vote | |
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The End of the Causal Funnel | |
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One Electorate or Many? | |
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Citizen Politics and Voting Behavior | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Notes | |
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Political Representation | |
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Collective Correspondence | |
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Dyadic Correspondence | |
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The Party Government Model | |
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Patterns of Political Representation | |
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Notes | |
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Democracy and the Future | |
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Citizens and the Democratic Process | |
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Aspects of Political Support | |
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Declining Confidence in Authorities | |
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Views of Political Institutions | |
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Support for a Democratic Regime | |
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Community Support | |
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Dissatisfied Democrats | |
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Suggested Readings | |
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Notes | |
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Statistical Primer | |
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Major Data Sources | |
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2004 International Social Survey Codebook | |
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References | |
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Index | |