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.

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 I. 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 II. 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 III. 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 IV. 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