Facing the challenge of democracy
Subtitle: explorations in the analysis of public opinion and political participation
By: edited by Paul M. Sniderman and Benjamin Highton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780691151113; 9780691151106
Subjects: Politics and government; Public opinion; Political participation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: facing the challenge of democracy / Paul M. Sniderman, Benjamin Highton; title: I. How do political scientists know what citizens want? An essay on theory and measurement / Arthur Lupia; title: II. Purposive mass belief systems concerning foreign policy / Benjamin I. Page, Tao Xie; title: III. Cosmopolitanism / Simon Jackman, Lynn Vavreck; title: IV. Running to the right: effects of campaign strategy on mass opinion and behavior / Diana Mutz, Susanna Dilliplane; title: V. Pathways to conservative identification: the politics of ideological contradiction in the United States / Christopher Ellis, James A. Stimson; title: VI. Partisan differences in job approval ratings of George W. Bush and U.S. senators in the states: an exploration / Gary C. Jacobson; title: VII. Political participation, polarization, and public opinion: activism and the merging of partisan and ideological polarization / John H. Aldrich, Melanie Freeze; title: VIII. Political Parties in the capital economy of modern campaigns / Jonathan Krasno; title: IX. Candidates and parties in congressional elections: revisiting candidate-centered conclusions in a partisan era / Eric McGhee, Kathryn Pearson; title: X. The myth of the independent voter revisited / David B. Magleby, Candice J. Nelson, Mark C. Westlye; title: XI. Who really votes? / Stephen Ansolabehere, Eitan Hersh; title: XII. Who governs if everyone votes? / John Sides, Eric Schickler, Jack Citrin; title: XIII. The effects of registration laws on voter turnout: an updated assessment / Matthew R. Knee, Donald P. Green; title: XIV. Issue preferences, civic engagement, and the transformation of American politics / Edward G. Carmines, Michael J. Ensley, Michael W. Wagner.