Now, more than ever, people drive the democratic process. What people think of their government and its leaders, how (or whether) they vote, and what they do or say about a host of political issues greatly affect the further strengthening or erosion of democracy and democratic ideals. This fully updated new sixth edition of Citizen Politics continues to offer the only truly comparative study of political attitudes and behavior in the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany.

In addition to its comprehensive, thematic examination of political values, political activity, voting, and public images of government within a cross-national context, Citizen Politics explores new forms of political activity, such as Internet-based activism and new forms of political consumerism. All chapters have been updated with the latest research and empirical evidence. Further, Dalton includes new discussions of citizen sophistication and its implications for democratic citizenship.

Key Features:

• Coverage of the most recent elections in the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany help readers understand the latest trends in voter behavior.
• New discussions of citizen sophistication show readers its implications for democratic citizenship.
• Coverage of current controversies in public opinion and electoral research encourages critical thinking.
• Expanded coverage of cross-national research on political representation deepens the research base of the text.
• A new data module from the World Values Survey facilitates student research projects.
• In-text learning aids include updated lists of suggested readings in each chapter, as well as an extensive bibliography on the most recent political behavior research.
• Provides the only truly comparative study of political participation, behavior, and elections in the U.S., Germany, France, and Great Britain, highlighting what is unique and common.
• Explores competing political theories using a rich array of genuinely comparative data, encouraging readers to undertake further analyses on their own.
• Includes a wealth of current data on elections, public opinion, political values, and more, all in nearly 100 tables and figures. 
• Provides useful appendices, including a statistical primer, list of major data sources, and accompanying codebook.

• Coverage of the most recent elections in the US, Britain, France and Germany
• New discussions of citizen sophistication and its implications for democratic citizenship
• Expanded coverage of new cross-national research on political representation
• New perspectives on issues and candidates in the voting process
• Updated lists of suggested readings in each chapter
• An extensive bibliography on the most recent political behavior research

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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.

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