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John Wiley & Sons Inc Political Attitudes
Book SynopsisPolitical Science has traditionally employed empirical research and analytical resources to understand, explain and predict political phenomena. One of the long-standing criticisms against empirical modeling targets the static perspective provided by the model-invariant paradigm. In political science research, this issue has a particular relevance since political phenomena prove sophisticated degrees of context-dependency whose complexity could be hardly captured by traditional approaches. To cope with the complexity challenge, a new modeling paradigm was needed. This book is concerned with this challenge. Moreover, the book aims to reveal the power of computational modeling of political attitudes to reinforce the political methodology in facing two fundamental challenges: political culture modeling and polity modeling. The book argues that an artificial polity model as a powerful research instrument could hardly be effective without the political attitude and, by extension, the polTrade Review“From the outside the field of political science or studies seems left behind in terms of time, techniques and issues addressed. This book brings together, for the first time, the various strands that together might make up a new direction for the field - that of using computational approaches to understand how political attitudes, beliefs and thinking might result in the macro political outcomes reported in the press and media. There have been some brave researchers who have attempted to introduce computer models in the field, but they have been widely scattered and largely ignored. By bringing together all these approaches within a coherent framework the author shows how much work has been done and its future potential. But she also places these within a systematic framework showing how they might relate. The coverage of this book is astounding, covering history, theoretical bases, cognitive perspective, computational details and all the main approaches that have been developed. This makes the book a valuable reference work, enabling researchers to see the power of the approach and giving them a solid foundation from which to develop future work. “ Dr. Bruce Edmonds, Research Professor, Director of the Centre for Policy ModellingManchester Metropolitan University Business SchoolTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgements xix Introduction xxi PART I SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ATTITUDE MODELLING 1 1 Attitudes: A Brief History of the Concept 3 2 Political Attitudes: Conceptual and Computational Modelling Backgrounds 31 PART II SOCIAL AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE MODELS OF ATTITUDE CHANGE 63 3 Voting Choice Computer Simulation Model 65 4 Community Referendum Model 83 PART III THE ROLE OF PHYSICAL SPACE IN POLITICAL ATTITUDE MODELLING 93 5 Social Impact Theory and Model 95 6 Dynamic Social Impact Theory and Model 107 PART IV POLITICAL ATTITUDE APPROACHES BASED ON SOCIAL INFLUENCE, CULTURE CHANGE AND COLLECTIVE ACTION MODELLING 139 7 Culture Dissemination Model 141 8 Diversity Survival Model 147 9 Collective Action Modelling 159 PART V MULTIDIMENSIONAL SPATIAL MODELS 165 10 The System Dynamics Modelling Paradigm 169 11 Multidimensional Attitude Change Models. Galileo 179 PART VI POLITICAL COGNITION MODELLING 189 12 The JQP Model 197 13 Political Attitude Strength Simulation Modelling 211 PART VII COMPUTATIONAL AND SIMULATION MODELLING OF IDEOLOGY 219 14 Ideological Polarization Model 227 15 Ideological Landscapes Model 237 16 Complex Integrative Models of Political Ideology 241 PART VIII POLITY MODELLING 245 17 Polity Instability Models Featuring Ethnic and Nationalist Insurgence 253 18 Polity Instability Model Featuring Reconstruction after State Failure 263 19 Polity Dynamics Model Featuring the Relationship between Public Issue Emergence and Public Policy Development 269 20 Polity Instability Model Featuring Revolution against Authoritarian Regime 277 PART IX EPILOGUE 285 21 Shaping New Science 287 Author Index 293 Subject Index 299
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Harvard University Press The Anatomy of Prejudices
Book SynopsisSurveying the study of prejudice since World War II, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl suggests an approach that distinguishes between different types of prejudices, the people who hold them, the social and political settings that promote them, and the human needs they fulfill.Trade ReviewYoung-Bruehl argues that anti-Semitism, racism, sexism and homophobia differ in their internal logic (or illogic) and, more important, that they are deeply rooted in character structure and the unconscious. Accordingly, she finds the most convincing evidence about prejudices not in the questionnaires and projective tests favored by social scientists but in the writings of psychoanalysts, philosophers, novelists, critics and historians. Above all, she finds it in the writings of the victims of prejudice themselves...Her interpretations boast the familiar psychoanalytic virtues of richness, nuance and complexity: they probe to a psychological depth appropriate to the intensity and irrationality of the ideas in question...As an analysis of the sources of prejudice, The Anatomy of Prejudices is bold and profound. Along with Theodor Adorno's Authoritarian Personality, Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, Gordon Allport's Nature of Prejudice and Gavin Langmuir's Toward a Definition of Antisemitism, it is one of the rare studies to explore this vexed topic with the conceptual ambition and passion it deserves. -- Paul Robinson * New York Times Book Review *Young-Bruehl is a perceptive observer. Her accounts of the preoccupations and qualities of psychological experiences that are revealed in different prejudices are useful and illuminating. -- Paul L. Wachtel * Washington Post Book World *No subject is of more importance than that of this book...[Young-Bruehl] wants us to concentrate on the plural of the word prejudice, as she does in her title; she wants us, thereby, to think of the different kinds of hate to be found among us, the different psychological roads traveled to those diverse animosities. Such a conceptual approach requires careful psychological distinctions, and to make them, the author calls upon her thorough, nuanced knowledge of psychoanalytic thinking. -- Robert Coles * Boston Globe *The Anatomy of Prejudices is a book of epic proportions that is sure to stimulate debate on many levels inside and outside the academy. It raises challenges to and for the social sciences, philosophy of culture, philosophy of science, studies of mind and of social development. And this is only the short list. Implications will be drawn concerning current warring groups and political agendas. Indeed, it is of such vast scope that it may invite discourse for some time to come. The goal of this ambitious study is to propose an alternative to theories of prejudice that are familiar from the social sciences...[which] tend to treat prejudice as itself a single, universal concept and to construct a general theory intended to apply to all forms of prejudice...The book exhibits the wide and deep erudition that its task demands. It critically surveys and analyzes the most influential psychological and social scientific theories that have shaped academic study and popular understanding of prejudice...The Anatomy of Prejudices is a striking achievement that may well alter profoundly the way we think of prejudices. If it provides insight into the phenomena of prejudices, it also may suggest ways of disabling or disarming them in the future. -- Rita Nolan * Washington Times *Although this theoretically daring volume may present difficulties to readers who are not familiar with psychoanalytical theory, by integrating classical psychoanalytical concepts into the current discussion of prejudice, Young-Bruehl's challenging work serves as a provocative corrective to the perceptual illusions and superficialities spawned by the customary social scientific approach. It's a book that is sure to have enormous implications for historians, war theorists, criminologists and other scholars interested in understanding the multiple facets of various kinds of prejudice...[She] provide[s] us with a brilliant new sense of the territory and allows us to ask new questions about different kinds of prejudices and their particularly virulent modern forms. -- Susan Osborn * San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle< *Elisabeth Young-Bruehl has written a bold and important book of comprehensive scope, and she has done so with historical and psychoanalytic sophistication. She addresses a topic of utmost concern to citizens of good will, and she treats this topic with full respect for its complexity. -- Jeffrey H. Golland * Psychoanalytic Books *For a psychoanalyst, one of the many felicitous consequences of reading Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's impressively panoramic study is being drawn into a reconsideration of the relationship between the terms 'clinical' and 'prejudicial'. This relationship is often thought tangential. But for Young-Bruehl, it is an intimate relationship. She thinks of individual psychopathologies and socially mediated hatreds as conceptually bound...[Young-Bruehl] presents the phenomena of racisms, sexisms, homophobias and anti-Semitism mainly through the use of historical and literary texts. Her reach is extensive and compelling. -- Donald Moss * The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis *Clearly written and accessible to general as well as scholarly readers, this is a major work in personality and culture that asserts the plurality rather than the unity of prejudice. The author...integrates psychoanalytic concepts with sociological and historical readings...Impressively erudite, [the author] knows 'how culture shapes the study of itself.' Young-Bruehl confronts a great and enduring scourge of humanity while enriching many fields. Along with new and challenging ideas, this book provides an indispensable survey of past scholarship. * Library Journal *Prejudice against another group is quite different from preference for one's own. Starting from this basic insight, Young-Bruehl develops a much needed inquiry of the ideologies of desire, where political theory meets psychoanalysis. -- Tzvetan Todorov, author of On Human Diversity: Nationalism, Racism, and Exoticism in French Thought
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Oxford University Press Inc The Invented State
Book SynopsisIn The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation reflects widespread public misperception about what the government does. Because much of public policy is invisible to the public, there is fertile ground for false beliefs to flourish, leading to the creation of what Thorson terms the invented state: systematic misperceptions about public policy. However, people get the facts wrong not because they are lazy, stupid, or blinded by partisan loyalty. Rather, misperceptions are created when three conditions are met: when citizens have incomplete information about an issue, when their own biases color their understanding of it, and when they feel that the issue is important. In other words, the invented state is created not just by exposure to explicit misinformation, but also by individuals'' cognitive errors. Correcting these policy misperceptions is highly effective at reducing false beliefs. In addition, providing people w
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The University of Chicago Press Justice by Means of Democracy
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Allen is an important political theorist and classicist who’s tried to turn theory into action. . . . And Allen’s vision, which she puts forward in her new book, Justice by Means of Democracy . . . is something called power-sharing liberalism. To her, one mistake liberalism has made has been that it is willing, again and again, to deprioritize political equality in favor of material redistribution. But she thinks renewal isn’t going to come from people just getting more from government. They’re going to have to be more full participants in government, and that’s going to require fundamentally overhauling the system. And maybe more than that, it’s going to require potentially constructing entirely new possibilities within it.” -- Ezra Klein * The Ezra Klein Show, New York Times *"An important book. . . . Allen’s big idea is that justice can’t be achieved simply by taking from the rich and giving to the poor, and liberty isn’t just about being left alone to do your own thing. People care about more than money, and we are social creatures. We flourish when we participate as equals in the public sphere. 'Justice is therefore best, and perhaps only, achieved by means of democracy,' she wrote in the opening pages." -- Peter Coy * New York Times *“Such a strong argument for people getting involved in politics. Not everyone has to run for governor of Massachusetts, but so many people in our movement, our prognosticators, opinion people who are pushing a message of doom and—maybe just getting up and getting involved, maybe that’s a good answer to that. . . . [Allen’s] arguments that freedom emerges from conditions where people are empowered to participate, to architect, to structure the world around them, it’s great.” -- Felicia Wong * The Roosevelt Institute/The New Republic/PRX's “How to Save a Country” *"Allen’s latest book, Justice by Means of Democracy, has little patience for abstractions that neglect real-world constraints. Allen argues instead for greater attention to the background conditions that make real disagreement possible, in part by critiquing and reframing the arguments in John Rawls’ seminal work of political philosophy, A Theory of Justice. . . . Her vision of ensuring that 'all people have an experience of ownership, belonging, and equal footing in relation to our political institutions' is compelling. . . . There’s much to appreciate about both the style and substance of Allen’s argument." -- John Inazu * The Dispatch *"It is hard to understate the importance of Allen’s insistence that political equality is diminished or enhanced not only or even primarily by the proper design of governmental institutions, but also and maybe more importantly in the realms of civil society and political economy. It is not enough to have 'egalitarian participatory constitutional democracy' if the social and economic conditions under which people must participate are not themselves structured with political equality in mind." -- Adam Smith * Front Porch Republic *"Allen offers a compelling and wide-ranging articulation of liberalism. She shows that not only do liberalism and democracy often go together, but also that they are inseparable partners in the quest for human flourishing. In Allen’s view, human freedom is predicated on political equality, which is increasingly under threat as power becomes concentrated among the wealthy. . . . Justice by Means of Democracy provides the road map that contemporary liberalism so desperately needs." -- Jeffery Tyler Syck * American Purpose *"Allen has done political philosophy a great service with this book. . . . Liberals and non-liberals alike should applaud its arrival." -- Max Foley-Keene * Commonweal *"In sum, Justice by Means of Democracy moves us away from parochial definitions of identity and nation to an active model of democratic power and citizenship—one that is in the service of a just, relational, economically empowering, dignity-enhancing, and inclusively democratic society. And by elaborating the principles that could form the basis of such a society, Allen is also able to lay out criteria for making policies that might actually create it." -- Margaret Levi * Democracy: A Journal of Ideas *"A major political philosophical work. . . . Allen’s agenda is about making democracy much more responsive, representative and dynamic and ensuring greater parity of esteem between democratic and economic equality." -- Nick Plumb * Renewal.org *"Allen integrates both scholarship and democratic activism into her work as an academic and as an activist. Justice by Means of Democracy examines these different threads as well; what is justice, and how does democracy work towards achieving justice? And what is the role of the citizen in these pursuits?" -- Lilly J. Goren * New Books Network *"A work of political philosophy drawn from Allen’s lifetime of scholarly interests and her analysis of traumatic socioeconomic and political events during the past decade. A just society is secured by political equality, she explains—and justice itself depends on democracy. But she argues further that 'power-sharing liberalism' is the best way to achieve the equality and justice essential to human flourishing: a prescription for inclusion and careful avoidance of any group’s monopoly on political, economic, or social power. Aspirationally, 'Justice by means of democracy will exist when all people, regardless of background, fully share power and responsibility.'" * Harvard Magazine *"Allen's new book lays out vision for power-sharing liberalism that will lead to greater inclusion, responsiveness, participation—and better lives for all. In Allen’s vision for a just society, every citizen would experience empowerment—both in their private lives and in our shared governing. Achieving this, according to Allen, requires a world where people have a work-life-civic balance and certain foundational needs assured: straightforward and affordable healthcare, low housing and energy costs, and good jobs that integrate people into the productivity of a dynamic, inclusive economy." -- Eileen O'Grady * Harvard Gazette *"A profound political theorist and classicist, Professor Allen was my dean when I received my PhD, and I have long admired her intellectual rootedness in theory and practice." -- Alyssa Ayres, dean, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University * McKinsey & Company, 2023 Summer Reading Guide *"Allen’s book presents a bold thesis: ‘Justice . . . requires egalitarian participatory constitutional democracy.’ Allen persuasively argues that neither liberalism nor democracy can stand alone. In addition, the argument incorporates equality by deploying the republican conception of liberty as non-domination. As such, the book presents an important critique of much of twentieth-century liberalism, which emphasized the distinction between liberty and democracy. . . . An important and provocative work of political theory. Essential." * Choice *“With a philosophically rich set of arguments, Allen brilliantly reveals how democracy is the means to achieve justice. As impressively, she derives from her political theory practical steps for the achievement of our common purpose and flourishing. This is a book in the tradition of Rawls and Dahl, but it is a book informed by the recognition of difference and diversity and the search for more encompassing standards of justice. It is without doubt one of the most important books ever written on democracy.” -- Margaret Levi, professor of political science and codirector of the Ethics, Society, and Technology Hub, Stanford University“Justice by Means of Democracy is a compelling, major statement by one of the most important, influential, and original political philosophers working today. The goal of the book, which is admirably achieved, is to reorient current discussions of justice, away from the primary economic focus on equal distribution of material goods (income or wealth) and toward democratic political equality. This book will transform academic debates in political philosophy and set the terms for how justice is made manifest in social policy. Superb.” -- Josiah Ober, author of "Demopolis: Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice"“Ambitious in scope, Justice by Means of Democracy rivals John Rawls’s Theory of Justice, the standard twentieth-century go-to text for liberal political philosophies seeking to address structural inequalities. Taking the idea of the ‘basic structure of society’ as its point of departure, Justice by Means of Democracy adds positive liberties and public autonomy to Rawls’s emphases on negative liberties and private autonomy and replaces Rawls’s famous ‘difference principle’ with a principle of ‘difference without domination.’ Offering an exciting new theory of justice for the twenty-first century, Justice by Means of Democracy is a remarkable achievement.” -- Jill Frank, author of "Poetic Justice: Rereading Plato’s 'Republic'"Table of ContentsPart I: A Theory of Justice Revised Prologue. On Surprise and the Purpose of Political Philosophy Chapter 1. Justice That Sacrifices Democracy: An Error Chapter 2. Justice by Means of Democracy: An Ideal and Its Design Principles Part II: Subsidiary Ideals of Justice for Each Domain Chapter 3. The First Subsidiary Ideal: Egalitarian Participatory Constitutional Democracy Chapter 4. The Second Subsidiary Ideal: A Connected Society Chapter 5. The Third Subsidiary Ideal: Polypolitanism Chapter 6. The Fourth Subsidiary Ideal: Empowering Economies Part III: From Ideal to Design Principles to Practice Chapter 7. A New Model for the Practice of Democratic Citizenship Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Prejudice
Book SynopsisThis new edition of Prejudice provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, introducing the major theoretical ideas as well as providing a critical analysis of recent developments. Takes a social psychological perspective, analysing individual behavior as part of a pattern of intergroup processes Covers the major research, including classical personality accounts, developmental approaches, socio-cognitive research focussing on categorization and stereotyping, prejudice as an intergroup phenomenon, and ways to combat prejudice Illustrates concepts with examples of different kinds of prejudice drawn from everyday life Includes a new chapter on prejudice from the victim''s perspective Fully updated throughout, with expansion of the notions of explicit and implicit manifestations of prejudice Trade Review"This new edition of Prejudice provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, introducing the major theoretical ideas as well as providing a critical analysis of recent developments". (Bulletin, 13 January 2011)Table of ContentsPreface viii Acknowledgements x List of Figures xii 1 The Nature of Prejudice 1 2 Prejudiced Individuals 13 3 Social Categorization and Prejudice 35 4 Stereotyping and Prejudice 68 5 The Development of Prejudice in Children 108 6 Prejudice and Intergroup Relations 143 7 Prejudice Old and New 182 8 Prejudice from the Recipients’ Point of View 219 9 Reducing Prejudice 243 Glossary of Key Terms 281 References 290 Subject Index 339 Author Index 345
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Oxford University Press Inc Hope for Democracy How Citizens Can Bring Reason
Book SynopsisConcerned citizens across the globe fear that democratic institutions are failing them. Citizens feel shut out of politics and worry that politicians are no longer responsive to their interests. In Hope for Democracy, John Gastil and Katherine R. Knobloch introduce new tools for tamping down hyper-partisanship and placing citizens at the heart of the democratic process. They showcase the Citizens'' Initiative Review, which convenes a demographically-balanced random sample of citizens to study statewide ballot measures. Citizen panelists interrogate advocates, opponents, and experts, then write an analysis that distills their findings for voters. Gastil and Knobloch reveal how this process has helped voters better understand the policy issues placed on their ballots. Placed in the larger context of deliberative democratic reforms, Hope for Democracy shows how citizens and public officials can work together to bring more rationality and empathy into modern politics.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Political Life Transformed 2. Pushing Citizens Aside 3. Losing Our Minds 4. Progressive Politics in the Pacific Northwest 5. A Crucial Test 6. The Best Argument Wins 7. Bureaucracy and Boycott 8. Back in the Wind Tunnel 9. Can Voters Deliberate? 10. Restoring Public Faith Conclusion: What's Possible?
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Oxford University Press Inc The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Persuasion
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis hefty volume takes a multidisciplinary look at the machinations involved in electoral persuasion... Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty. * J. A. Hardenbrook, Carroll University *Table of Contents1. A Framework for the Study of Electoral Persuasion Elizabeth Suhay, Bernard Grofman, and Alexander H. Trechsel Part I. General Models of Political Persuasion 2. Classic Models of Persuasion Richard R. Lau 3. When, How, and Why Persuasion Fails: A Motivated Reasoning Account Ryan G. Cotter, Milton Lodge, and Robert Vidigal 4. The Boundary Conditions of Motivated Reasoning Ryan G. Cotter, Milton Lodge, and Robert Vidigal 5. Reasoned Persuasion Bernard Grofman 6. Persuasion and Issue Voting Bernard Grofman 7. Party Cues John G. Bullock 8. How the News Media Persuades: Framing Effects and Beyond Thomas J. Leeper and Rune Slothuus 9. The Emotional Aspects of Political Persuasion Bethany Albertson, Lindsay Dun, and Shana Kushner Gadarian 10. Do Election Campaigns Matter? A Comparative Perspective and Overview J. Alexander Branham and Christopher Wlezien Part II. Persuasion by Parties, Candidates, and Outside Groups 11. The Utility and Content of Traditional Ads Michael Franz 12. The Persuasion Effects of Political Endorsements Cheryl Boudreau 13. Mobilization Strategies and Get Out the Vote Melissa R. Michelson 14. Appealing to Diverse Electorates in the United States David M. Searle and Marisa Abrajano 15. Race and Racism in U.S. Campaigns Christopher Sebastian Parker, Christopher C. Towler, Loren Collingwood, and Kassra AR Oskooii 16. Gendered Aspects of Political Persuasion in Campaigns Kelly Dittmar 17. Persuasion and Non-Party Groups in the Digital Age Deana A. Rohlinger 18. Interest Groups and Elections Jeffrey M. Berry 19. How Electoral Spending Relates to Political Persuasion David B. Magleby 20. Low-Resource Candidates and Fundraising Appeals Richard Johnson Part III. Media Influence 21. Campaigns and Elections in a Changing Media Landscape Michael X. Delli Carpini and Bruce A. Williams 22. Sowing Distrust of the News Media as an Electoral Strategy Jonathan M. Ladd and Alexander R. Podkul 23. Beyond Infotainment: Political-Entertainment Media and Electoral Persuasion Geoffrey Baym and R. Lance Holbert 24. Horse-Race and Game-Framed Journalism's Effects on Turnout, Vote Choice, and Attitudes toward Politics Benjamin Toff 25. Misinformation, Fake News, and Dueling Fact Perceptions in Public Opinion and Elections David C. Barker and Morgan Marietta 26. Conspiracy Theories Joseph E. Uscinski 27. Polarization and Media Usage: Disentangling Causality Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Matthew A. Baum, and Adam J. Berinsky 28. National and Cross-National Perspectives on Political Media Bias Yphtach Lelkes 29. The Incentives and Effects of Independent and Government-Controlled Media in the Developing World Horacio Larreguy and John Marshall Part IV. Interpersonal Influence 30. Persuasion in Interpersonal Networks Anand Edward Sokhey and Carey Stapleton 31. Social Network Effects in Developing Countries Cesi Cruz, Horacio Larreguy, and John Marshall 32. Voter Mobilization in Intimate Networks Florian Foos and Eline A. de Rooij 33. Citizen Deliberation Online Patrícia Rossini and Jennifer Stromer-Galley 34. Networks and Media Influence David A. Siegel 35. Bandwagon Effects, Information Cascades, and the Power in Numbers Susanne Lohmann 36. Lobbying Networks Jennifer Nicoll Victor Part V. Electoral Persuasion across Contexts 37. Electoral Persuasion in the New Democracies: Challenges and Opportunities Rosario Aguilar and Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz 38. A Menu of Clientelist Methods to Buy and Coerce Voters: The Dark Side of Electoral Persuasion Gilles Serra 39. How and Why the Populist Radical Right Persuades Citizens Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, Scott Blinder, and Lise Bjånesøy 40. The Strategic Adaptation of the Populist Radical Right in Western Europe: Shifting the Party Message Elie Michel 41. Party Nominations and Electoral Persuasion J. Andrew Sinclair 42. Persuasion and Ballot Propositions Shaun Bowler and Stephen P. Nicholson 43. Online versus Offline Strategies in Comparative Perspective Tiago Silva 44. Voting Advice Applications: The Power of Self-Persuasion Alexander H. Trechsel and Diego Garzia 45. How Voters Distort Their Perceptions and Why This Matters Andrea De Angelis Part VI. Empirical Methodologies for Understanding Electoral Persuasion 46. Accounting for Complex Survey Designs: Strategies for Post-stratification and Weighting of Internet Surveys Erin Hartman and Ines Levin 47. Debating How to Measure Media Exposure in Surveys Seth K. Goldman and Stephen M. Warren 48. Studying Electoral Persuasion Using Online Experiments Thomas J. Leeper 49. Citizens, Elites, and Social Media: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities in the Study of Persuasion and Mobilization Philip Habel and Yannis Theocharis
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Oxford University Press Inc Polarization
Book SynopsisThe 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial, regional, and economic divisions. But one aspect that the contemporary discussions often miss is that these fissures have been opening over several decades and are deeply rooted in the structure of American politics and society. Nolan McCarty''s Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible introduction to polarization in America. McCarty takes readers through what scholars know and don''t know about the origins, development, and implications of our rising political conflicts, delving into social, economic, and geographic determinants of polarization in the United States. While the current political climate makes it clear that extreme views are becoming more popular, McCarty also argues that, contrary to popular belief, the 2016 election was a natural outgrowth of 40 years of polarized politics, instead of a significant break wTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. What is Political Polarization? 3. Are Partisan Elites Polarized? 4. Is the Public Polarized? 5. What Are The Causes of Polarization? 6. How Does Electoral Law Affect Legislative Polarization? 7. How Have Other Changes in American Society Affected? 8. What are the Consequences of Polarization for Public Policy and Governance? 9. Is the Trump Presidency a New Normal or More of the Same? Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Public Opinion Polling in MidCentury British
Book SynopsisExplores the influence that public opinion polling, and the developing idea of a public consciousness in the British mid-century, had upon the literature of the period. It traces the emergence and growing dominance of public opinion research in cultural and governmental bodies, and the ways in which it came to be aestheticized by British writers.Table of ContentsIntroduction: From the Era of the Crowd to the Psychographic Turn 1: A Science So-Called: H.G. Wells's Reprisal of Academic Sociology 2: Polling for Peace: Journalism and Activist Polling Between the Wars 3: What the Listeners Want: Public Opinion on the Wireless 4: The Gender of Public Opinion: Naomi Mitchison, Celia Fremlin, and the Women of Mass-Observation 5: The Morass of Morale: The Ministry of Information in the Works of Cecil Day-Lewis and Elizabeth Bowen Afterword: Psychography's Postwar Pivot
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Oxford University Press Voice of the People Public Opinion in Pakistan
Book SynopsisThe book is an annual study on public opinion in Pakistan. It provides a telescopic view of the values and attitudes of the Pakistani public by documenting survey research conducted by Gallup Pakistan on a variety of topics including politics, health, social behaviour, foreign affairs and consumption preferences.Table of ContentsCONTENTS LIST: ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. Political Scene ; PERFORMANCE RATINGS ; PAKISTAN ; GOVERNMENT ; ARMY ; CIVIL SOCIETY ; POLITICAL PARTIES ; POLITICAL LEADERS ; POLITICAL PROCESSES ; POLITICS OF EXILE ; POLITICS OF "RECONCILIATION" ; DOMESTIC TERRORISM ; LAL MASJID ; POLITICS OF THE BLACK COATBEARERS ; VIEWS ON DEMOCRACY ; 2. Foreign Policy ; PAKISTANIS AND THE WORLD ; PAK-US RELATIONS & ROLE OF UNITED STATES IN THE REGION ; PAKISTAN INDIA RELATIONS ; IRAQ ; 3. Economy ; PERCEPTIONS ABOUT ECONOMY IN 2007 ; INFLATION ; CONSUMPTION PATTERNS ; 4. Public Health ; HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE ; HEALTH AND DISEASE ; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE ; HEALTH AND STRESS ; HEALTH AND NUTRITION ; SMOKING AND ADDICTION ; HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT ; 5. Social Scene ; CLIMATE ; LIFESTYLES ; PROFESSIONS ; RELIGION ; RAMADAN ; PUBLIC PERCEPTION ON FESTIVALS ; GENDER NORMS ; FAKE CURRENCY ; ACCIDENTS ; POPULARITY OF SPORTS ; MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT ; TOURISM ; HOW SCIENTIFIC POLLS WORK? ; APPENDICES
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Oxford University Press Inc The Ubiquitous Presidency
Book SynopsisAmerican democracy is in a period of striking tumult. The clash of a rapidly changing socio-technological environment and the traditional presidency has led to an upheaval in the scope and standards of executive leadership. Yet research on the presidency, although abundant, has been slow to adjust to changing realities associated with digital technologies, diverse audiences, and new elite practices. Meanwhile, journalists and the public continue to encounter and shape emerging presidential efforts in deeply consequential ways. Joshua Scacco and Kevin Coe bring needed insight to this complex situation by offering the first comprehensive framework for understanding contemporary presidential communication in relation to the current socio-technological environment. They call this framework the ubiquitous presidency. Scacco and Coe argue that presidents harness new opportunities in the media environment to create a nearly constant and highly visible presence in political and nonpolitical arTrade Review...the book uses analytical narratives and quantitative analysis on descriptive and bivariate levels. The language in the book is academic without being excessively technical. * S. Mitropolitski, University of Ottawa, CHOICE *The authors conclude that the ubiquitous presidency has become characteristic of the US's highest executive office and expect this quality to stay dominant during the Biden presidency. Methodologically, the book uses analytical narratives and quantitative analysis on descriptive and bivariate levels. * S. Mitropolitski, CHOICE *As Coe and Scacco trace the past 30 years of the presidency and shifts in media attention and use by presidents, the historical development of ubiquity is where this book truly shines. ... Impressively, throughout the book, they aim not only to seek how...untraditional outlets and social media platforms like Twitter drive journalistic coverage...they compellingly trace the relationship between tweets and public discourse writ large, and also give accountings of "newer" forms of conceptually meaningful presidential communication. * The International Journal of Press/Politics *In a book that is well written and researched, Scacco and Coe provide a compelling and innovative argument for how best to continue this essential area of inquiry for presidency scholars within multiple academic disciplines and, more importantly, why this new reality matters for democratic governance. * Lori Cox Han, Perspectives on Politics *The Ubiquitous Presidency is an important work that will influence the direction of scholarship on presidential communication for years to come. ... Impeccably researched, historically rich, and interdisciplinary in perspective, the text succeeds in being a robust academic investigation that is accessible to audiences of scholars, students, and people interested in politics. * Mass Communication and Society *With engaging prose and compelling data, Scacco and Coe construct a history of presidential communication strategies to highlight the benefits and dangers of the contemporary digital environment as it becomes the ubiquitous presidency. This book is sure to serve as a foundational text for future scholars who will grapple with new information technology, the spread of disinformation, and their potential to influence the future of representative democracy. * Presidential Studies Quarterly *[Updates the extant research on presidential communication and prepare[s] readers for understanding future campaigns and administrations in an age where what it means to "be presidential" has continued to evolve. * Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly *The Ubiquitous Presidency, offers a lifeline by presenting a clear and effective framework for understanding presidential communications in a digital world where the traditional norms for presidential agenda-setting are no longer tenable. ... One of the important contributions of this book is the roadmap it provides for future scholarship. * Journal of Communication *Scacco and Coe have provided a thoughtful and in-depth analysis on how communications helped create the 'Ubiquitous Presidency.' Certainly, to preserve our democracy, it will be critical for our citizens to fully comprehend the profound impact that the rapid growth of digital media will continue to play as we elect public officials to represent us and govern. The 'Ubiquitous Presidency' helps the reader understand the evolution of these powerful communications tools and compels us to think critically when choosing our leaders. * David Almacy, former White House Internet Director *The Ubiquitous Presidency is an important work that will influence the direction of research on presidential communication for years to come. Scacco and Coe have written a definitive study of the nature of elite political communication that has emerged along with transformative digital innovation and provide a pathbreaking framework for analysis. Impeccably researched, historically rich, and interdisciplinary in perspective, the text succeeds in being a robust academic investigation that is accessible to diverse audiences of scholars, students, and people interested in politics. * Diana Owen, Georgetown University *Scacco and Coe bring the digital into the center of research on presidential communication by uniting theories of public opinion, rhetoric, and the institutional presidency. They provide a thorough and deep understanding of presidential communication as accessible, personal, and entailing multiple platforms-as necessarily ubiquitous. This insightful analysis of how presidents communicate and the audiences they hope to reach will interest scholars of the presidency in political science, communication, and history; it is useful to scholars and accessible to their students."-Mary E. Stuckey, The Pennsylvania State University, and author of Deplorable Elections: Despicable Discourse in American Presidential CampaignsTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Ubiquitous Presidency: A Conceptual Framework 2. The Ubiquitous Presidency in Its Contexts 3. Expectations of the Ubiquitous Presidency 4. Barack Obama: Ubiquity Through Adaptation 5. Donald Trump: Ubiquity Through Visibility and Control 6. The Ubiquitous Presidency and Democratic Possibility Epilogue Notes Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology
Book SynopsisPolitical psychology applies what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. It examines how people reach political decisions on topics such as voting, party identification, and political attitudes as well as how leaders mediate political conflicts and make foreign policy decisions. In this updated third edition of The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, Leonie Huddy, David O. Sears, Jack S. Levy, and Jennifer Jerit have gathered together an international group of distinguished scholars to provide an up-to-date account of key topics and areas of research in the field. Chapter authors draw on theory and research on biopsychology, neuroscience, personality, psychopathology, evolutionary psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, and intergroup relations. Some chapters address the political psychology of political elites, while other chapters deal with the dynamics of mass political behavior. Focusing first on political psychology atTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Theoretical Foundations of Political Psychology Leonie Huddy, David O. Sears, Jack S. Levy, and Jennifer Jerit PART I: THEORETICAL APPROACHES Chapter 2: Personality Approaches to Political Behavior Bert N. Bakker Chapter 3: Childhood and Adult Political Development David O. Sears and Christia Brown Chapter 4: Rational Choice as an Empirical and Normative Model of Political Behavior Dennis Chong Chapter 5: Political Decision-Making Richard R. Lau and David P. Redlawsk Chapter 6: Emotion and Political Psychology Ted Brader and Shana Gadarian Chapter 7: The Evolutionarily Approach to Political Psychology Michael Bang Petersen Chapter 8: Biology and Politics Jaime Settle and Laurel Detert Chapter 9: Political Language Nick Hopkins PART II: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Chapter 10: Foreign Policy Decision-Making: The Psychological Dimension Jack S. Levy Chapter 11: Perceiving Threat: Cognition, Emotion, and Judgment Janice Gross Stein Chapter 12: Signaling, Resolve, and Reputation in International Politics Don Casler and Keren Yarhi-Milo Chapter 13: Public Opinion about Foreign Policy Joshua D. Kertzer Chapter 14: The Political Psychology of Terrorism Keren L.G. Snider, Ryan Shandler, Sharon Matzkin, and Daphna Canetti PART III: MASS POLITICAL BEHAVIOR Chapter 15: Information Processing Jennifer Jerit and Cindy D. Kam Chapter 16: Political Communication Dannagal G. Young and Joanne M. Miller Chapter 17: The Psychological and Social Foundations of Ideological Belief Systems Christopher M. Federico and Ariel Malka Chapter 18: Morality as the Enduring Basis of Public Opinion Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom Chapter 19: The Political Psychology of Gender Monica C. Schneider and Angela L. Bos Chapter 20: Authoritarianism and Political Conflict Stanley Feldman and Christopher Weber Chapter 21: National Identity, Patriotism, and Nationalism Leonie Huddy Chapter 22: The Social Identity Approach to Leadership Frank Mols, A. Alexander Haslam, Michael J. Platow, Stephen D. Reicher, and Niklas K. Steffens PART IV: INTERGROUP RELATIONS Chapter 23: Group-Based Hierarchies of Power and Status Maureen A. Craig and L. Taylor Phillips Chapter 24: Political Identities Lilliana Mason Chapter 25: The Gaze From Below: Toward a Political Psychology of Minority Status Efrén O. Pérez and Bianca V. Vicuña Chapter 26: Social Movements and the Dynamics of Collective Action Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and Teodora Gaidyte Chapter 27: Prejudice and Politics Donald R. Kinder Chapter 28: Migration and Multiculturalism Eva G. T. Green and Christian Staerklé Chapter 29: Prejudice Reduction and Social Change: Dual Goals to be Pursued in Tandem Linda R. Tropp and Trisha A. Dehrone Chapter 30: Emotional Processes in Intractable Conflicts Smadar Cohen-Chen and Eran Halperin Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Democracys Child Young People and the Politics of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book is a compelling argument for adults to pay more attention to the voices of youth and an affirmation to young people that they can make a difference. * M. R. Michelson, CHOICE *Cynics and pessimists often overlook the important role that young people have played in U.S. politics. In Democracy's Child, Gash and Tichenor definitively show that this is a terrible mistake. The kids are more than alright—and the future of democracy depends on them. * Susan Burgess, Distinguished Professor, Ohio University, and Sr. Professional Lecturer, DePaul University *This fascinating book broadly explores children's relationship to politics. The authors move beyond familiar narratives about how law and policy affect children to examine children as symbols for political movements and also to understand children as political agents. By centering children, the book helps us to rethink political agency. It renders visible important political acts by and around subjects who do not yet have full political membership in society. * Julie Novkov, Professor of Political Science and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University at Albany, SUNY *Children organize some of the most powerful social movements worldwide. At the same time, they are often weaponized by adults waging their own wars over culture and politics. How can we do justice to the citizenship of children? Democracy's Child answers this pressing question, offering an innovative framing of children as subjects, icons, collateral and agents to illustrate the diverse facets of children's political lives. Through expertly curated storytelling and authoritative research, Gash and Tichenor guide readers toward a better understanding of how children experience and influence politics. * Elizabeth F. Cohen, Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University *Young people are key to the future of our democracy, and yet, they are often rendered marginal to the study of American politics. In Democracy's Child, Gash and Tichenor offer a powerful framework to understand the role of children and young people in politics. In making their case for a more expansive view of why children and young people are central to democratic politics, the authors skillfully weave present-day illustrations, from school board fights and youth activism over gun control and immigrant rights, to historical examples from labor movements and the Civil Rights Movement. This is a masterfully written book, with an agenda-setting framework, and a call to action that should inspire scholarship and investments in young people's political agency for years to come. * Karthick Ramakrishnan, Professor of Public Policy, University of California Riverside and board member, The California Endowment *
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Oxford University Press Inc Citizens of the World
Book SynopsisThe Millennial Generation, those born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s, is the most educated, digitally connected, and globalized in the history of the world. Around the globe, this generation encompasses 1.8 billion people--a quarter of the world''s population--and will soon produce a majority of the world''s political, economic, and social leaders. Millennials grew up experiencing the terrorist attacks of September 11, the perpetual war on terror, the global proliferation of the internet and smart phones, and the increased interconnectedness of people around the world. In many countries, Millennials'' young adulthood has been marked by high rates of unemployment and underemployment that surpass those of their parents and grandparents, making them the first generation in the modern era to have higher rates of poverty than their predecessors at the same age. These factors afford a unique opportunity to explore how Millennial attitudes, compared to older adults, vary across diTrade ReviewCitizens of the World sets the record straight about the much-discussed, oft-maligned Millennial Generation. Unlike most discussions of generational differences, these authors rely on data, not anecdotes, and thus separate fact from fiction. Far from the common caricature of shallow slackers, this ground-breaking study convincingly shows that Millennials are cosmopolitan, tech-savvy, and civically engaged. The kids are alright. * David Campbell, Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy, University of Notre Dame *Citizens of the World shatters many preconceptions about Millennials being less politically motivated and savvy than older generations. Using a robust survey of 8 nations, the authors show authoritatively that Millennials, both here and abroad, care deeply about politics, are heavily invested in their local communities and involved in political organizations, and embody more empathy than older citizens. An important work for understanding what the political future entails! * Melissa Deckman, Louis L. Goldstein Professor of Public Affairs, Washington College *Citizens of the World offers an ambitious exploration of the identities, news consumption patterns, political behaviors, and civic activities of Millennials and non-Millennials. Using surveys fielded in eight countries, touching all six continents permanently inhabited by humans, Citizens of the World finds that Millennials have developed a uniquely global identity and argues that this identity may prove critical in addressing the massive social and political issues that confront our changing world. * Cindy D. Kam, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University *Table of Contents1. Introduction: U21 Global Survey: Millennials as Citizens of the World 2. Millennials and the Shift toward a Global Identity 3. Millennials as Digital Natives: News Consumption and Political Preferences 4. How (Politically) Conventional Are Millennials? Exploring Preferences for Varying Forms of Political Participation 5. Duty-Based Citizenship, Engaged Citizenship, or Somewhere in the Middle? Millennials' Interest in Serving the Public 6. Millennials: The Global Perspective and the Future of a Shared Generational Identity Global Millennial Survey Questionnaire Notes Works Cited Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Power of Partisanship
Book SynopsisIn The Power of Partisanship, Joshua J. Dyck and Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz argue that the growth in partisan polarization in the United States, and the resulting negativity voters feel towards their respective opposition party, has far-reaching effects on how Americans behave both inside and outside the realm of politics. In fact, no area of social life in the United States is safe from partisan influence. As a result of changes in the media landscape and decades of political polarization, voters are stronger partisans than in the past and are more likely to view the opposition party with a combination of confusion, disdain, and outright hostility. Yet, little of this hostility is grounded in specific policy preferences. Even ideology lacks meaning in the United States: conservative and liberal are what Republicans and Democrats have labeled conservative and liberal.Dyck and Pearson-Merkowitz show how partisanship influences the electorate''s support for democratic norms, willingness toTrade ReviewDyck and Pearson-Merkowitz conduct a wide-ranging investigation into the effects of partisanship. Drawing on surveys and an array of other data, they show that partisanship and partisan cues shape attitudes, behaviors, and preferences across a huge range of domains, extending well beyond the political realm. This creative and thought-provoking study illuminates the drivers of growing affective polarization in society, as well as the challenges facing American democracy ahead. * Frances E. Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University *This book convincingly demonstrates how partisanship distorts our view of the world. Through a series of well-designed experiments, Dyck and Pearson-Merkowitz show how our responses to partisan signals affects everything from the politicians and policies we support to the foods we like. They also reveal how independent voters may be both more savvy than often portrayed and better able than partisans to realistically assess the world. This book is vital for those seeking to understand partisanship and its role in our political system. * Seth Masket, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center on American Politics, University of Denver *In this groundbreaking book, Dyck and Pearson-Merkowitz go beyond the well-tread domain of how partisanship affects politics to document how deep the influence of affective attachments to parties has become. The pair make two key contributions. First, they document that partisanship has become so toxic that the ameliorative power of positive intergroup contact—long thought to reduce intergroup animosity—has little impact on how we view out-partisans. Second, they question the value of measures of political knowledge. As what we know about politics has become endogenous to partisanship, the political science canon about how political knowledge affects political preferences becomes upended and in need of revision. A must-read for students of American politics today. * Alexandra Filindra, Associate Professor of Political Science and Psychology, University of Illinois Chicago *This is an important cautionary tale, well supported by the authors' evidence... Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals. * Choice *This is an important cautionary tale, well supported by the authors' evidence. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Partisanship and Ideology in Political Decision-Making Chapter 2: Elite Cues, Negative Partisanship, and the Changing Media Landscape Chapter 3: Partisanship, Policy, Compromise, and the Non-political Chapter 4: Partisanship, Race, and Intergroup Contact Chapter 5: Prospect Theory and Partisan Cues Chapter 6: Political Responsiveness to the Lived Experience Chapter 7: Independents, Knowledge, and Alienation Chapter 8: An Elite Problem Calls for an Elite Solution Appendix
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Oxford University Press Inc Political Choice in a Polarized America How Elite
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJoshua Zingher's Political Choice in a Polarized America provides a fresh perspective on the central development in American electoral politics of the past half century-the rise of mass ideological polarization. Zingher demonstrates that ordinary citizens' policy preferences are increasingly organized into coherent belief systems and play a central role in shaping partisan attachments and voting decisions. This book is must reading for both scholars and concerned citizens who want to understand American elections and voting behavior in the current era of deep partisan polarization. * Alan I. Abramowitz, Professor of Political Science, Emory University *Zingher has produced an outstanding book. He demonstrates convincingly that policy-based choice in the American public depends on voter knowledge and elite signaling. Drawing on data spanning the last several decades of American political experience, he has produced the most comprehensive account to date on how this interaction has shaped American politics. Political Choice in a Polarized Era will quickly become a must read for anyone interested in the study of U.S. public opinion, voting behavior, elections, and political polarization. * Paul Goren, Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota *In Political Choice in a Polarized America, Zingher (Old Dominion Univ.) makes an important point about electoral change in American politics...This insight helps shed light on the roots of polarization in the US and offers a generative point of discussion about the future of US politics. * Choice *
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Oxford University Press Inc Gradual The Case for Incremental Change in a
Book SynopsisA call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change.Many experts believe that we are at a fulcrum moment in history, a time that demands radical shifts in thinking and policymaking. Calls for bold change are everywhere these days, particularly on social media, but is this actually the best way to make the world a better place?In Gradual, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox argue that, contrary to the aspirations of activists on both the right and the left, incremental reform is the best path forward. They begin by emphasizing that the very structure of American government explicitly and implicitly favors incrementalism. Particularly in a time of intense polarization, any effort to advance radical change will inevitably engender significant backlash. As Berman and Fox make clear, polling shows little public support for bold change. The public is, however, willing to endorse a broad range of incremental reforms that, if implemented, would reduce suffering and improve fairness. To illustrate how incremental changes can add up to significant change over time, Berman and Fox provide portraits of heroic incrementalists who have produced meaningful reforms in a variety of areas, from the expansion of Social Security to more recent efforts to reduce crime and incarceration.Gradual is a bracing call for a radical realism that prioritizes honesty, humility, nuance, and respect in an effort to transcend political polarization and reduce the conflict produced by social media.Trade ReviewGradual' makes a passionate and convincing argument for incrementalism. * The Economist *Practical and satisfying. * Tyler Cowen, Times Literary Supplement *A welcome and necessary corrective to what ails much of our current thinking about transformative social change. Berman and Fox offer an illuminating roadmap for action that finds persuasive precedent in the cumulative capacity of modest steps to address profound challenges. * Daniel F. Wilhelm, President, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation *Berman and Fox have written a deeply wise and richly insightful book about the possibilities for social policy change. Illustrated by a wealth of examples from different policy areas—including their own experiences as criminal justice reformers—they argue that incremental reforms sustained over a long period have the capacity to make bigger, more impactful, and lasting change than can usually be attained from any single sweeping reform. This engaging book is both highly accessible to general readers and grounded in the scholarly literature. It will be a terrific addition to courses on public policymaking. * Frances Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University *Radical incrementalism—the pursuit of revolutionary change over the geological time scale—is the world's most underrated force for social improvement. In this innovative, enjoyable, and sometimes inspiring book, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox show how stepwise reform brought Social Security to America and safe streets to New York, and why incrementalism, not 'bold action,' is the solution to our most intractable problems. So here's what to do: read Gradual, identify a problem, then find three constructive steps you can take. As a veteran of the fight for same-sex marriage, I can say that the results will surprise you. * Jonathan Rauch, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution *In this simply written and powerfully argued book, Berman and Fox make the telling point that incremental measures often produce major changes. Their insightful analysis moves beyond the inflated contemporary rhetoric and helps us understand what drives policy and how we might do better. * Edward D. Berkowitz, Professor Emeritus of History and Public Policy, George Washington University *A major contribution to the study of incrementalism. Berman and Fox make a compelling case for the superiority of incrementalism as a way to make policies. While incrementalism can be a purposeful strategy, it may also result from many independent and uncoordinated changes (a phenomenon they call 'accidental incrementalism') or from what they call 'practitioner vetoes' in the implementation process. * Michael Hayes, Professor Emeritus, Colgate University *Excellent for collections on public policy, social change, and American politics. * Choice *Gradual ' makes a passionate and convincing argument for incrementalism. * The Economist *Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Era of Radical Change? Section One: A World of Constraints Chapter One: Muddling Through Chapter Two: The Practitioner Veto Chapter Three: What the Public Wants Section Two: Incrementalism in Action Chapter Four: Social Security's Heroic Incrementalists Chapter Five: How New York City Reduced Crime and Incarceration Chapter Six: The Immigration System's Hidden Strengths Section Three: Stumbling Toward Success Chapter Seven: The Perils of Greatness Chapter Eight: The Four Core Values of Incrementalism Conclusion: The Endless Effort to Alleviate Injustices Acknowledgments References Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Rise of Political Action Committees
Book SynopsisPolitical Action Committees (PACs) are a prominent and contentious feature of modern American election campaigns. As organizations that channel money toward political candidates and causes, their influence in recent decades has been widely noted and often decried. Yet, there has been no comprehensive history compiled of their origins, development, and impact over time.In The Rise of Political Action Committees, Emily J. Charnock addresses this gap, telling a story with much deeper roots than contemporary commentators might expect. Documenting the first wave of PAC formation from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s, when major interest groups began creating them, she shows how PACs were envisaged from the outset as much more than a means of winning elections, but as tools for effecting ideological change in the two main parties. In doing so, Charnock not only locates the rise of PACs within the larger story of interest group electioneering--which went from something rare and controversial at the beginning of the 20th Century to ubiquitous today--but also within the narrative of political polarization. Throughout, she offers a full picture of PACs as far more than financial vehicles, showing how they were electoral innovators who pioneered strategies and tactics that came to pervade modern US campaigns and reshape American politics. A broad-ranging political history of an understudied American campaign phenomenon, this book contextualizes the power and purpose of PACs, while revealing their transformative role within the American party system--helping to foster the partisan polarization we see today.Table of ContentsIntroduction: "Going into Politics" 1. "Interests" and Elections 2. "Pressure" as Prologue 3. A Tale of Two Leagues 4. Electoral Afterlives 5. Introducing P.A.C. 6. A Labor-Liberal Constellation 7. When Business is Not "Business-Like" 8. A Tale of Two PACS Conclusion: The House that P.A.C. Built Notes Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Race Gender and Political Representation
Book SynopsisIt is well established that the race and gender of elected representatives influence the ways in which they legislate, but surprisingly little research exists on how race and gender interact to affect who is elected and how they behave once in office. How do race and gender affect who gets elected, as well as who is represented? What issues do elected representatives prioritize? Does diversity in representation make a difference?Race, Gender, and Political Representation takes up the call to think about representation in the United States as intersectional, and it measures the extent to which political representation is simultaneously gendered and raced. Specifically, the book examines how race and gender interact to affect the election, behavior, and impact of all individuals. By putting women of color at the center of their analysis and re-evaluating traditional, single-axis approaches to studying the politics of race or gender, the authors demonstrate what an intersectional approachTrade ReviewRace, Gender, and Political Representation is a powerful piece of scholarship that would be a valuable addition to any course on political representation, gender and politics, race and ethnicity politics, and legislative politics. The book makes a compelling case for why a more intersectional approach to the study of representation is not only a worthwhile pursuit, but an essential one. In many respects, the book is a âcall to actionâ for future scholars to grapple with the political consequences of intersectionality, to consider its implications for their own work, to answer old questions in new ways, and to ask new questions. * Katelyn E. Stauffer, Politics & Gender *How do gender and race interact to affect the representational behavior of all policymakers? In Race, Gender, and Political Representation, the authors answer this most timely, and intriguing question with enormous clarity and invaluable insight gleaned from intersectionality studies. * Evelyn M. Simien, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics *This book advances scholarship by taking seriously the assumptions that scholars (un)willingly hold when they employ epistemological and empirical techniques that are rooted in exclusionary practices. * Nadia E. Brown, Perspectives on Politics *[This book] is a treasure trove of substance, strategies, and approaches for scholars looking toward applying a quantitative-positivist approach to intersectionality in the sub-field of representation. Reingold, Haynie, and Widner provide a masterclass on how to reexamine the body of knowledge that considers the role of identity politics in studies of political representation. This scholarship will open a path for others that seek strategies to implement a more intersectional framework in quantitative analysis in political science. * Guillermo Caballero, Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy *The book addresses questions that have long been of interest to the social sciences regarding identity, power, and how different groups perceive and act on their interests. While the authors are political scientists, the book adds a lot to sociological conceptualizations of identity politics as well as the role of identity in politics. * J. A. Beicken, CHOICE *With more women and persons of color competing for elected office than ever before, this book could not have arrived at a better time in American politics. Using an intersectional approach to examine the implications of both gender and race, indeed simultaneously, among those running for office and how they behave once elected, the authors make a significant contribution to our understanding of the politics and practices of representation in American states. * Valerie Martinez-Ebers, co-author of Human Relations Commissions: Relieving Racial Tensions in American Cities *Bringing a much-needed intersectional lens to bear on original data, Race, Gender, and Political Representation attacks a set of crucial and enduring questions about the roles of race and gender in structuring substantive and descriptive representation for women and people of color in American politics. Through their innovative analyses, the authors make clear that centering the experiences, perspectives, and interests of women of color is crucial to an accurate account of the barriers to and opportunities for representation for marginalized groups. * Dara Z. Strolovitch, author of Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics *Drawing on a wealth of quantitative and qualitative data, Reingold, Haynie, and Widner demonstrate the importance of centering intersectionality and women of color in the study of political representation. They convincingly demonstrate the tremendous impact of women of color in their capacity as policy leaders and agenda-setters, as well as their role in mitigating some of the more punitive aspects of welfare-reform in the late 1990s. It is a must-read for anyone interested in how race and gender identity shapes the election, behavior, and impact of state legislators. * Sophia Jordán Wallace,, University of Washington *
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Oxford University Press, USA Political Obligations
Book SynopsisPolitical Obligations provides a full defense of a theory of political obligation based on the principle of fairness (or fair play), which is widely viewed as the strongest theory of obligation currently available. The work responds to the most important objections to the principle of fairness, and extends a theory based on fairness into a developed ''multiple principle'' theory of obligation. In order to establish the need for such a theory, Political Obligations criticizes alternative theories of obligation based on a natural duty of justice and ''reformist'' consent, and critically examines the non-state theories of libertarian and philosophical anarchists. The work breaks new ground by providing the first in-depth study of popular attitudes towards political obligations and how the state itself views them. The attitudes of ordinary citizens are explored through small focus groups, while the ''self image of the state'' in regard to the obligations of its citizens is studied through examination of judicial decisions in three different democratic countries.Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Bringing the State Back In ; 3. Alternative Supply and Alternative Preferences ; 4. Political Obligation and the Natural Duties of Justice ; 5. Multiple Principles of Political Obligation ; 6. Reformist Consent and Political Obligation ; 7. Political Obligation and the United States Supreme Court ; 8. Political Obligation and Military Service in Germany and Israel ; 9. Popular Opinion ; 10. Examples and Cooperation ; 11. Conclusions
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior
Book SynopsisWhat does democracy expect of its citizens, and how do the citizenry match these expectations? This Oxford Handbook examines the role of the citizen in contemporary politics, based on essays from the world''s leading scholars of political behavior research. The recent expansion of democracy has both given new rights and created new responsibilities for the citizenry. These political changes are paralleled by tremendous advances in our empirical knowledge of citizens and their behaviors through the institutionalization of systematic, comparative study of contemporary publics--ranging from the advanced industrial democracies to the emerging democracies of Central and Eastern Europe, to new survey research on the developing world. These essays describe how citizens think about politics, how their values shape their behavior, the patterns of participation, the sources of vote choice, and how public opinion impacts on governing and public policy.This is the most comprehensive review of the Trade ReviewReview from previous edition The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are an ambitious academic enterprise of monumental scale and accomplishment. The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior is an indispensable guide to the extraordinary accumulation of knowledge and array of ideas in recent decades about mass political behaviour in free democracies. It is authoritative, expert, up-to-date and comprehensive and it is organised and written with a clarity that will satisfy expert scholar and curious beginner alike. * Professor Ivor Crewe, Vice Chancellor, University of Essex *The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior provides important coverage of one of the major areas of political science research. It brings together the leading authors in the field and it takes a very broad view of what is a complex and multi-dimensional subject matter. Students entering political science and scholars pursuing the subject will benefit from this volume. * Sidney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University *Table of ContentsPART I INTRODUCTION; PART II MASS BELIEF SYSTEMS AND COMMUNICATION; PART III MODERNIZATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE; PART IV POLITICAL VALUES; PART V NEW DEBATES IN POLITICAL BEHAVIOR; PART VI POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; PART VII DOES PUBLIC OPINION MATTER?; PART VIII THE METHODOLOGY OF COMPARATIVE POLITICAL BEHAVIOR RESEARCH
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OUP Oxford Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media
Book SynopsisPublic opinion and the media form the foundation of the United States'' representative democracy. They are the subject of enormous scrutiny by scholars, pundits, and ordinary citizens. This Oxford Handbook takes on the ''big questions'' about public opinion and the media-both empirical and normative-focusing on current debates and social scientific research. Bringing together the thinking of a team of leading academic experts, its chapters provide a cutting assessment of contemporary research on public opinion, the media, and their interconnections. Emphasizing changes in the mass media and communications technology-the vast number of cable channels, websites and blogs, and the new social media, which are changing how news about political life is collected and conveyed-they describe the evolving information interdependence of the media and public opinion. In addition, the volume reviews the wide range of influences on public opinion, including the processes by which information communiTable of ContentsPART I INTRODUCTION; PART II THE MEDIA; PART III PUBLIC OPINION; PART IV ISSUES AND POLITICS
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Oxford University Press Affective Publics
Book SynopsisOver the past few decades, we have witnessed the growth of movements using digital means to connect with broader interest groups and express their points of view. These movements emerge out of distinct contexts and yield different outcomes, but tend to share one thing in common: online and offline solidarity shaped around the public display of emotion. Social media facilitate feelings of engagement, in ways that frequently make people feel re-energized about politics. In doing so, media do not make or break revolutions but they do lend emerging, storytelling publics their own means for feeling their way into events, frequently by making those involved a part of the developing story. Technologies network us but it is our stories that connect us to each other, making us feel close to some and distancing us from others. Affective Publics explores how storytelling practices facilitate engagement among movements tuning into a current issue or event by employing three case studies: Arab SpriTrade ReviewI HEART #affectivepublics! Zizi Papacharissi brings enormous insight and much needed clarity to current debates about the role of social media in political life. Rejecting binaries which ascribe social movements to Twitter or Facebook or that dismiss all forms of online participation as 'Slacktivism,' she instead acknowledges the ways that social media has provided opportunities for new forms of expression and affiliation, new 'structures of feeling' that can in the right circumstances help to inspire and expand political movements. Her approach mixes theoretical sophistication with empirical rigor as it forces us to rethink what we thought we knew about the Egyptian Revolution and the Occupy movement. * Henry Jenkins, co-author of Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Culture *Affective Publics transcends the already stale debate between those who see social media as effecting political change and those who castigate it for irrelevant chatter. Instead, in an original move, carefully argued and empirically grounded, Papacharissi shows us how social media facilitate emotionally resonant and collaboratively constructed narratives which, in turn, support civically significant 'soft structures of engagement'. * Sonia Livingstone, co-author of Media Consumption and Public Engagement *A compelling and necessary read. Papacharissi shows how fact, opinion and feeling are threaded together on social platforms to create affective publics. Where the traditional accounts of normative civic debate online have rejected emotion, this book opens up the potential of messiness, intensity and pathos in networked media. * Kate Crawford, professor, and author of Adult Themes *The book comprises a first comprehensive study of this kind, providing both theoretical analysis and empirical methodology and data to highlight the multidimensional character of social media usage in politics. * Evika Karamagioli, International Journal of Electronic Governance *this book offers a unique, rigorous, and well-rationalized argument for analyzing affect and microblogging. ... Certainly this book has the ability to spark future research for scholars across multiple disciplines. * Amber L. Ferris, Mobile Media & Communication *This book is very rich in its philosophical thinking, which readers interested in political mobilization, civic discourse, and networked publics may find inspiring. It also offers researchers and professionals a foundation for further research and practice via testing the propositions presented. * Yiwei Wang, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Prelude ; Chapter One: The Present Affect ; Chapter Two: Affective News and Networked Publics ; Chapter Three: Affective Demands and the New Political ; Chapter Four: The Personal as Political: Everyday Disruptions of the Political Mainstream ; Chapter Five: Affective Publics ; Notes ; References ; Index
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The University of Chicago Press Reputation Analytics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Diermeier [analyzes] the factors that affect the public’s opinion of companies, presenting an application of the perspectives and methods of modern social sciences to corporate reputation....Reputation Analytics [explains] how a company can build a reputations management capability based on its business model and core values." * Journal of Economic Literature *“The practice of reputation management is changing to more directly impact business strategy and long-term value creation. As a result, it’s now emerging as a more explicit strategic discipline for management teams, as well as a more explicit corporate governance matter for boards. A wonderful and timely text, Reputation Analytics provides critical knowledge and tools by which to create and optimize reputation management systems.” -- AnnaMaria DeSalva | Global Chairman and CEO, Hill+Knowlton Strategies"In an era when businesses are increasingly drawn into contentious political debates and their every move is scrutinized, a firm’s public standing should be a priority, not an afterthought, for business leaders. In his most important book to date, Daniel Diermeier creates a multidisciplinary roadmap for executives seeking to integrate reputation management with corporate strategy, and he also lays the foundation for using cutting-edge methodologies to study the dynamics of public attitudes toward firms. Reputation Analytics is required reading for anyone interested in understanding what managers can, and can’t, control when it comes to how their companies are perceived by customers, regulators, and other key constituencies." -- David M. Primo | Simon Business School, University of Rochester“Daniel Diermeier’s assertion that corporate reputation is public opinion for companies is a fundamental reappraisal of communications strategy that demands serious consideration by the C-suite. Publics across the world are increasingly looking to businesses to solve social problems. Activist employees and belief driven consumers are pushing brands and CEOs to speak up on the issues of the day, from sustainability to race to geopolitics. Developing rigorous methodologies for managing these challenges is essential: Reputation Analytics defines the standard on how to accomplish this feat.” -- Richard Edelman | CEO, Edelman Communications | Chairman, Daniel J. Edelman Holdings“Reputational management is critical to businesses, especially in light of global events such as Covid-19 and increasing calls for social justice. Timely, bold, and comprehensive, Diermeier integrates disparate fields to create a rich portrait which answers the question of how organizations may effectively manage their reputations.” -- Michael Lenox | Darden School of Business, University of Virginia“Never has there been a time where a company’s reputation can be impacted so quickly and through so many channels. Reputation Analytics gives incredible insights into the array of issues that can impact a company, the means through which they can surface, and the pace at which they can unfold. Like many things in life, preparation is key, and Reputation Analytics provides critical understandings on how to best position an organization for maneuvering through ultra-sensitive and rapidly moving reputational minefields.” -- Jim Roth | Chief Executive Officer, Huron Consulting Group“There is high demand for interdisciplinary approaches to problems in the study of management, and in the social sciences more broadly. Framing corporate reputation as 'public opinion for companies' and noting that companies typically face various 'publics' (employees, activists, customers, etcetera), Diermeier leads the reader through a plethora of methodologies in this tour-de-force book, seeking an integrated approach for understanding and operationalizing the theory and practice of reputation management.” -- David Austen-Smith | Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University"Daniel Diermeier has written a masterful book that deepens our understanding of the foundations of and risks to a company’s reputation. Based on psychology, economics, and public opinion research, he presents methodologies and metrics for building a reputation management capability." -- David Baron | Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University"Everybody knows that corporate reputation is critical. But who knows how best to manage it? With Reputation Analytics, Daniel Diermeier achieves the near-impossible: he provides an account that is at one and the same time steeped in science—game theory, cultural anthropology, computational linguistics—and brimming with practical advice for executives who are responsible for managing the forces that shape the public opinion of their companies." -- Felix Oberholzer-Gee | Harvard Business School, Harvard University"Reputation is critically important, but discussions of strategic reputation management are often full of overblown assertions, hunches masquerading as insight, and sloppy thinking based on uninformative data. In this pathbreaking book, Daniel Diermeier charts the course for rigorous study of corporate reputation. His approach is solidly grounded in key lessons from a wide range of academic disciplines, including cognitive science, political behavior, moral psychology, linguistics, machine learning, and game theory. For scholars, the book provides deep insight into an emerging interdisciplinary field. For business leaders, it provides an essential toolkit for measuring, analyzing, and strategically managing their company’s reputation." -- Ken Shotts | Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University"Today's organizations face massive challenges on the topic of trust and reputation. Reputation Analytics provides a meaningful and pragmatic approach to equip leaders with clear thinking and solid analytics to manage what has otherwise been a very amorphous topic." -- Paul Leinwand | author of "Strategy that Works" | Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University“Path-breaking in its perspective, Reputation Analytics is enlightening to both scholars and practitioners, providing an outstanding navigation tool for scholars who wish to use frontier methods to explore the dynamics of corporate reputation.” -- Dennis Yao | Harvard Business School, Harvard University
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The University of Chicago Press Why Welfare States Persist The Importance of
Book SynopsisThe world's richer democracies all provide such public benefits as pensions and health care, but why are some far more generous than others? Analyzing data on sixteen countries, this work finds that the preferences of citizens profoundly influence the welfare policies of their governments and the behavior of politicians in office.Trade Review"Why Welfare States Persist makes important predictions about how social welfare policies will hold up under increased globalization and provides illuminating explanations of their histories. This book will be of great interest to researchers and students in comparative social policy, public opinion, and political behavior." - Robert Y. Shapiro, Columbia University"
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press The American Voter Unabridged Edition
Book SynopsisHere is the unabridged version of the classic theoretical study of voting behavior, originally published in 1960. It is a standard reference in the field of electoral research, presenting formulations of the theoretical issues that have been the focus of scholarly publication. No single study matches the study of "The American Voter."
£45.60
The University of Chicago Press Us Against Them Ethnocentric Foundationss of
Book SynopsisEthnocentrism - our tendency to partition the human world into in-groups and out-groups - pervades societies around the world. This book explains how ethnocentrism shapes American public opinion.Trade Review"Learned, historically grounded, and theoretically ambitious. Seldom have I read social science this well written and broadly conceived. The way that Kinder and Kam weave together decades of important research with their view of ethnocentrism is wonderful." - Samuel L. Popkin, University of California, San Diego"
£85.00
The University of Chicago Press Us Against Them Ethnocentric Foundations of
Book SynopsisEthnocentrism - our tendency to partition the human world into in-groups and out-groups - pervades societies around the world. This book explains how ethnocentrism shapes American public opinion.Trade Review"Learned, historically grounded, and theoretically ambitious. Seldom have I read social science this well written and broadly conceived. The way that Kinder and Kam weave together decades of important research with their view of ethnocentrism is wonderful." - Samuel L. Popkin, University of California, San Diego"
£26.60
University of Chicago Press Mobilizing Public Opinion Black Insurgency
Book SynopsisInvestigating the question of opinion changing attitudes during periods of political unrest, Lee argues that the protests of local, ordinary people pushed demands for social change. His arguments are substantiated with considerable evidence from multiple sources.Trade Review"Mobilizing Public Opinion is original and makes its argument ably. Lee critiques 'elite-driven, top-down' accounts of mass opinion with the specific case study of mass support for the civil rights advances in the postwar period. He presents his analysis in a carefully nuanced way and makes a fundamentally important point that is sure to be debated and extended to other cases." - David Sears, University of California, Los Angeles
£81.00
The University of Chicago Press Mobilizing Public Opinion Black Insurgency and
Book SynopsisInvestigating the question of opinion changing attitudes during periods of political unrest, Lee argues that the protests of local, ordinary people pushed demands for social change. His arguments are substantiated with considerable evidence from multiple sources.Trade Review"Mobilizing Public Opinion is original and makes its argument ably. Lee critiques 'elite-driven, top-down' accounts of mass opinion with the specific case study of mass support for the civil rights advances in the postwar period. He presents his analysis in a carefully nuanced way and makes a fundamentally important point that is sure to be debated and extended to other cases." - David Sears, University of California, Los Angeles
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Dealing with Risk Why the Public and the Experts
Book SynopsisPostulates that for decades, both policymakers and analysts have been frustrated by conflicts between expert and lay perceptions of environmental risk. This work examines the role of intuition, mental habits, and cognitive frameworks in the construction of public opinion.
£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Common Knowledge News and the Construction of
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The University of Chicago Press The Spiral of Silence Public OpinionOur Social
Book SynopsisExamines public opinion as a form of social control in which individuals, almost instinctively sensing the opinions of those around them, shape their behaviour to prevailing attitudes about what is acceptable. For the second edition, Noelle-Neumann has added three new chapters.
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press The Great Broadening How the Vast Expansion of
Book SynopsisBeginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. During this period, the federal government extended its scope into policy arenas previously left to civil society or state and local governments. With The Great Broadening, Bryan D. Jones, Sean M. Theriault, and Michelle Whyman examine in detail the causes, internal dynamics, and consequences of this extended burst of activity. They argue that the broadening of government responsibilities into new policy areas such as health care, civil rights, and gender issues and the increasing depth of existing government programs explain many of the changes in America politics since the 1970s. Increasing government attention to particular issues was motivated by activist groups. In turn, the beneficiaries of the government policies that resulted became supporters of the government's activity, leading to the broad acceptance of its role. This broadening and deepening of government, however, produced a reaction as groups critical of its activities organized to resist and roll back its growth.
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The University of Chicago Press The Great Broadening How the Vast Expansion of
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The University of Chicago Press Class War What Americans Really Think about
Book SynopsisPresents evidence that most Americans favor free enterprise and practical government programs to distribute wealth more equitably. This book provides a popular mandate to combat the economic inequity that plagues the nation.Trade Review"Innovative and fascinating, Class War? is the only book I know of that investigates public attitudes about inequality with an open mind. Benjamin Page and Lawrence Jacobs make a sensible, lucid, and broadly persuasive argument that although Americans tend to identify with conservative philosophies, they also favor egalitarian policies when those policies are presented in pragmatic terms." - James K. Galbraith, author of The Predator State"
£42.75
The University of Chicago Press Class War
Book SynopsisPresents evidence that most Americans favor free enterprise and practical government programs to distribute wealth more equitably. This book provides a popular mandate to combat the economic inequity that plagues the nation.Trade Review"Innovative and fascinating, Class War? is the only book I know of that investigates public attitudes about inequality with an open mind. Benjamin Page and Lawrence Jacobs make a sensible, lucid, and broadly persuasive argument that although Americans tend to identify with conservative philosophies, they also favor egalitarian policies when those policies are presented in pragmatic terms." - James K. Galbraith, author of The Predator State"
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press The Rational Public Fifty Years of Trends in
Book SynopsisThis monumental study is a comprehensive critical survey of the policy preferences of the American public, and will be the definitive work on American public opinion for some time to come. Drawing on an enormous body of public opinion data, Benjamin I. Page and Robert Y. Shapiro provide the richest available portrait of the political views of Americans, from the 1930's to 1990. They not only cover all types of domestic and foreign policy issues, but also consider how opinions vary by age, gender, race, region, and the like. The authors unequivocally demonstrate that, notwithstanding fluctuations in the opinions of individuals, collective public opinion is remarkably coherent: it reflects a stable system of values shared by the majority of Americans and it responds sensitively to new events, arguments, and information reported in the mass media. While documenting some alarming case of manipulation, Page and Shapiro solidly establish the soundness and value of collective political opinio
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The University of Chicago Press A Troubled Birth
Book SynopsisWe need to go back to the beginning of the idea of public opinion and a mass public to understand what the American public has become.Trade Review"Herbst makes her case not in a single narrative but in a series of essays that circle around the subject...A Troubled Birth presents engaging portraits of America in the 1930s..." * The Wall Street Journal *"Herbst explores the forces that shape the amorphous thing known as “public opinion,” concerning herself with its quality more than its specific content." * Foreign Affairs *"In A Troubled Birth, Susan Herbst, an eminent thought leader on public opinion in American democracy, helps us grapple with these tensions by taking us back to the formidable shaping of public opinion in the 1930s and the trappings that have followed us since...A Troubled Birth is a must‐read for anyone grappling with ideas of the American 'public' and how to assess public opinion in the face of so many social, technological, and political changes. Herbst masterfully weaves history with contemporary reality, encouraging her array of readers to reevaluate their own biases by looking at where they originated." * Political Science Quarterly *"Susan Herbst’s A Troubled Birth is an engaging and original analysis of American public opinion in the 1930s. This is not a book about the content of public opinion. Rather, it examines how a particular vision of the American public came into being during this turbulent and pivotal decade." * Perspectives on Politics *“Anyone looking to understand how US democracy ended up in its current troubled state of affairs will benefit from reading A Troubled Birth. Herbst has long been teaching us to reconsider what we mean by public opinion better than anyone, and she’s done it again masterfully here.” -- Katherine Cramer, University of Wisconsin–Madison“In this engaging and wide-ranging book, Herbst emphasizes the importance of broader cultural history in showing that the advent of scientific polling and pollsters in the 1930s did not merely offer a way to measure public opinion for the pursuit of American democracy. For better or ill, they along with the mass media (radio and newspapers), economic crisis (and how individuals cope with it), President Franklin Roosevelt’s leadership and communication style, political divisions (including on race and immigration), debates in the academic world, entertainment and early “infotainment,” and other visible developments in the United States (and worldwide), that have their counterparts today, turned public opinion which had been relatively amorphous concept into a tangible, multifaceted, and contentious one. This is an illuminating and impressive work.” -- Robert Y. Shapiro, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Birth of a Public 2 President in the Maelstrom: FDR as Public Opinion Theorist 3 Twisted Populism: Pollsters and Delusions of Citizenship 4 A Consuming Public: The Strange and Magnificent New York World’s Fair 5 Radio Embraces Race and Immigration, Awkwardly 6 Interlude: A Depression Needn’t Be So Depressing 7 Public Opinion and Its Problems: Some Ways Forward Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£86.45
The University of Chicago Press A Troubled Birth The 1930s and American Public
Book SynopsisWe need to go back to the beginning of the idea of "public opinion" and a mass public to understand what the American public has become. Trade Review"Herbst explores the forces that shape the amorphous thing known as “public opinion,” concerning herself with its quality more than its specific content." * Foreign Affairs *"In A Troubled Birth, Susan Herbst, an eminent thought leader on public opinion in American democracy, helps us grapple with these tensions by taking us back to the formidable shaping of public opinion in the 1930s and the trappings that have followed us since...A Troubled Birth is a must‐read for anyone grappling with ideas of the American 'public' and how to assess public opinion in the face of so many social, technological, and political changes. Herbst masterfully weaves history with contemporary reality, encouraging her array of readers to reevaluate their own biases by looking at where they originated." * Political Science Quarterly *"Susan Herbst’s A Troubled Birth is an engaging and original analysis of American public opinion in the 1930s. This is not a book about the content of public opinion. Rather, it examines how a particular vision of the American public came into being during this turbulent and pivotal decade." * Perspectives on Politics *“Anyone looking to understand how US democracy ended up in its current troubled state of affairs will benefit from reading A Troubled Birth. Herbst has long been teaching us to reconsider what we mean by public opinion better than anyone, and she’s done it again masterfully here.” -- Katherine Cramer, University of Wisconsin–Madison“In this engaging and wide-ranging book, Herbst emphasizes the importance of broader cultural history in showing that the advent of scientific polling and pollsters in the 1930s did not merely offer a way to measure public opinion for the pursuit of American democracy. For better or ill, they along with the mass media (radio and newspapers), economic crisis (and how individuals cope with it), President Franklin Roosevelt’s leadership and communication style, political divisions (including on race and immigration), debates in the academic world, entertainment and early “infotainment,” and other visible developments in the United States (and worldwide), that have their counterparts today, turned public opinion which had been relatively amorphous concept into a tangible, multifaceted, and contentious one. This is an illuminating and impressive work.” -- Robert Y. Shapiro, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Birth of a Public 2 President in the Maelstrom: FDR as Public Opinion Theorist 3 Twisted Populism: Pollsters and Delusions of Citizenship 4 A Consuming Public: The Strange and Magnificent New York World’s Fair 5 Radio Embraces Race and Immigration, Awkwardly 6 Interlude: A Depression Needn’t Be So Depressing 7 Public Opinion and Its Problems: Some Ways Forward Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£29.45
Columbia University Press The Power of the Internet in China
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA boundary-breaking book... A snap review of some of the hottest issues in front of the Chinese public today. -- Daniel Little Understanding Society Mr. Yang's work is essential reading. -- Rebecca MacKinnon Far Eastern Economic Review This work represents a major advancement in scholarly research... unquestionably, it should be on reading lists for courses related to social and political development in China... it is highly recommended to all. -- Jonathan Sullivan The China Quarterly Of interest to sociologists and students of mass communications... Recommended. Choice Essential reading for all those seeking a more nuanced account of the power of the internet in China than that provided by international media and human rights organizations. -- Colin Hawes The China Journal Yang develops a lens that centers on concrete issues and situations that are both empirical-practical and conceptual-theoretical. -- Peter Marolt International Journal of Communication The Power of the Internet in China by Yang Guobin is destined to be classic and obligatory reading for anyone interested in understanding the role of the internet in people's struggle for freedom, justice, and democracy in China. -- Lokman Tsui China Information The Power of the Internet in China offers us not only a rich study of Chineseonline activism but also raises significant questions about China's civil society. -- Ming-Cheng Miriam Lo Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Online Activism in an Age of Contention 2. The Politics of Digital Contention 3. The Rituals and Genres of Contention 4. The Changing Style of Contention 5. The Business of Digital Contention 6. Civic Associations Online 7. Utopian Realism in Online Communities 8. Transnational Activism Online Conclusion: China's Long Revolution Notes Bibliography Index
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ABC-CLIO Candidate Images in Presidential Elections
Book SynopsisSince Nimmo and Savage's groundbreaking work, Candidates and Their Images (1976), there has been no book dedicated solely to the examination of political candidate images. This volume adds to the development of the candidate image construct initiated by Nimmo and Savage. It provides a compendium of state-of-the-art theory and research of candidate images and image formation in the U.S. presidential elections. The contributors to this work, among the best-known in the field of political communication, describe and explain how presidential election results hinge on voter perceptions of candidates and how candidates seek to construct images that attract the most votes. The volume integrates issues of voter decision-making, media messages, campaigning, debate effects, and political advertising into the development of political communication theory. It will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of political communication.Table of ContentsForeword by Robert Denton Introduction: The Importance of Candidate Images by Kenneth L. Hacker Campaigns and Candidate Images in American Presidential Elections by Susan A. Hellweg Political Images and Voting Decisions by Kathleen E. Kendall and Scott C. Paine Creating the Eye of the Beholder: Candidate Images and Political Socialization by Robert L. Savage The Formation of Candidate Images during Presidential Campaigns by Dan Nimmo Interpersonal Communication and the Construction of Candidate Images by Kenneth L. Hacker Changing Candidate Images: The Effects of Political Advertising by Lynda Lee Kaid and Mike Chanslor Televised Presidential Debates and Candidate Images by Walter R. Zakahi and Kenneth L. Hacker Meta-analysis of Candidate Images by Susan A. Hellweg and Brian H. Spitzberg Measuring Candidate Images with Semantic Differentials by Lynda Lee Kaid Intensive Analysis and Candidate Images by Dan Nimmo A Rashomonian Approach to the Study of Image Construction by Doug Kruse and Kathleen E. Kendall Linguistic Discourse Analysis of Candidate Image Formulations by Kenneth L. Hacker References Index
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Yale University Press The Voice of the People
Book SynopsisEvaluating modern democratic practices, this text explains how the voice of the people has struggled to make itself heard in the past. It views changing concepts and practices of democracy, with examples that range from ancient Sparta to America's founders to the first Gallup polls.Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction: "magic town"; who speaks for me?; out of the cave? Part 2 Who speaks for the people?: new beginnings; a voice from Rhode Island; what should representatives do?; "the most natural and simple idea"; counting people equally ; deliberation - thinking through the issues together; participation; avoiding tyranny - the energy that reforges democracy; small scale democracy; the Founders' vision; the anti-Federalist dissent. Part 3 How "public opinion" became the voice of the people: "like a burglar" - informal processes of reform; Bryce's prophecy - government by public opinion; Gallup's answer; opinions and pseudo-opinions in the echo chamber; a rational public?; a machine that transforms itself. Part 4 Who are the people?: whose declaration of independence?; all men?; from Douglass to Lincoln versus Douglas; from paper rights to voting rights; the quest for voting equality; the declaration of sentiments; whose America?; how do we come to support it? Part 5 Giving the people voice?: the "town" meeting of the air"; towards civic engagement; airing the people's agenda; bringing deliberation to democracy. Appendix: the first deliberative poll - some summary results.
£31.46
Yale University Press The Politics of Parody A Literary History of
Book SynopsisTrade Review“While the intimate relationship between graphic satire and British literary classics is to some extent self-evident and has already been covered in some detail, [. . .] Taylor brings a new enthusiasm, depth and rigour to this approach.” —Ian Haywood, The Review of English StudiesSelected for Choice's 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles List "Taylor has written the most historically-detailed and theoretically-sophisticated account we have of the interactions between Georgian graphic satire and the literary canon. This is exhilarating, original, powerful scholarship, as illuminating about Macbeth or Paradise Lost or Gulliver's Travels as it is about the caricatures that so vigorously seized upon and re-shaped them."— David Womersley, University of Oxford "An innovative account of Romantic-period graphic satire that brilliantly demonstrates the openness of visual culture to literary analysis. The golden age of caricature has never looked so rich or creative."—Thomas Keymer, University of Toronto"Contesting the notion of Georgian caricature as a popular cultural form, David Frances Taylor masterfully disentangles visual satire’s negotiation of the boundaries between an educated elite and those less able to interpret its literary and political allusions. The graphic satires yield to his exhaustive analysis to reveal a rich context of allusion and parody encompassing Shakespeare, Milton, Bunyan, Swift, and Napoleon. Brimming over with fresh insights and appealing to a broadly interdisciplinary audience, The Politics of Parody will forever change the way we see these fascinating prints."—Felicity Nussbaum, Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA "The Politics of Parody is a fascinating and authoritative study that brings together Taylor's deep knowledge of the golden-age of caricature with his expertise on politics and the theatre to marvelous effect. It is unsurpassed in its field."—Jon Mee, Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s"No one has explored the visual and verbal cultures of the afterlives of eighteenth-century literature quite as systematically and insightfully as Taylor. He is unique in doing justice to the intertextuality—and intermediality—of this era of cultural history.”—Deidre Lynch, Harvard University
£35.62
ABC-CLIO Party Politics in Israel and the Occupied
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Elections Voting
Book SynopsisThe study of elections, voting behavior and public opinion are arguably among the most prominent and intensively researched sub-fields within Political Science. It is an evolving sub-field, both in terms of theoretical focus and in particular, technical developments and has made a considerable impact on popular understanding of the core components of liberal democracies in terms of electoral systems and outcomes, changes in public opinion and the aggregation of interests. This handbook details the key developments and state of the art research across elections, voting behavior and the public opinion by providing both an advanced overview of each core area and engaging in debate about the relative merits of differing approaches in a comprehensive and accessible way. Bringing geographical scope and depth, with comparative chapters that draw on material from across the globe, it will be a key reference point both for advanced level students and researchers developing knowledge aTrade Review‘The Handbook very nicely covers all the topics related to the study of elections, voting and public opinion: the most influential theories and methods, both turnout and vote choice, both the individual-level and the contextual determinants, the roles of both voters and parties. The review essays are written by top scholars in the field, with a crucial cross-national perspective. An essential reading for all those who study and/or teach political behavior.’ - André Blais, Université de Montréal, Canada.‘This Handbook takes stock of 50 years of research into elections, voting behavior and public opinion. It is well structured and a stellar cast of authors presents the state of the art in a comprehensive fashion. This monumental volume is a true landmark. It is a must-read for all those interested in elections and democratic politics.’ - Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany.Table of ContentsEditors' Introduction [Justin Fisher, Edward Fieldhouse, Mark Franklin, Rachel Gibson, Marta Cantijoch and Christopher Wlezien] Part I: Theoretical Approaches to Study of Voter Behavior 1. Democratic Theory and Electoral Behavior [Ian McAllister] 2. The Sociological and Social-Psychological Approaches [Vincent Hutchings and Hakeem Jefferson] 3. Rational Choice Theory and Voting [Keith Dowding] 4. Institutions and Voting Behavior [B. Guy Peters] Part II: Turnout: Why People Vote (or don’t) 5. The Big Picture: Turnout at the Macro Level [Jack Vowles] 6. Demographic and the Social Bases of Voter Turnout [Eric Plutzer] 7. Turnout and the Calculus of Voting: Recent Advances and Prospects for Integration with Theories of Campaigns and Elections [John Aldrich and Libby M. Jenke] 8. Voting and the Expanding Repertoire of Participation [Jan van Deth] 9. The Acquisition of Voting Habits [Elias Dinas] Part III: Determinants of Vote Choice 10. Long-term factors: Class and Religious Cleavages [Geoff Evans and Ksenia Northmore-Ball] 11. Ideology and Electoral Choice [Martin Elff] 12. Party Identification [Shaun Bowler] 13. Trends in Partisanship [Oliver Heath] 14. Politics, Media and the Electoral Role of Party Leaders [Anthony Mughan and Loes Aaldering] 15. Preferences, Constraints, and Choices: Tactical Voting in Mass Elections [R. Michael Alvarez, D. Roderick Kiewiet and Lucas Núñez] 16. Economic Voting [Marianne Stewart and Harold Clarke] Part IV: The Role of Context and Campaigns 17. Electoral Systems [Iain McLean] 18. Electoral Integrity [Pippa Norris] 19. Voting Behavior in Multi-Level Electoral Systems [Hermann Schmitt and Eftichia Teperoglou] 20. Local Context, Social Networks and Neighbourhood Effects on Voter Choice [Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie] 21. Voting Behavior in Referendums [Michael Marsh] 22. Networks, Contexts, and the Process of Political Influence [Robert Huckfeldt, Matthew T. Pietryka and John B. Ryan] 23. Persuasion and Mobilization Effects by Parties and Candidates [Justin Fisher] 24. Campaign Strategies, Media and Voters: The Fourth Era of Political Communication [Holli Semetko and Hubert Tworzecki] 25. The Role of Mass Media in Shaping Public Opinion and Voter Behaviour [Susan Banducci] 26. Digital Campaigning [Stephen Ward, Rachel Gibson and Marta Cantijoch] Part V: The Nature of Public Opinion 27. Attitudes, Values and Belief Systems [Oddbjørn Knutsen] 28. The Stability of Political Attitudes [Robert Erikson] 29. Political knowledge: Measurement, Misinformation and Turnout [Jennifer Hudson] 30. Is There a Rational Public? [Jørgen Bølstad] 31. The Geometry of Party Competition. Parties and Voters in the Issue Space [Lorenzo de Sio] 31. The Thermostatic Model: The Public, Policy and Politics [Christopher Wlezien] 32. Regime Support [Pedro Magalhaes] 33. Generational Replacement: Engine of Electoral Change [Wouter van der Brug and Mark Franklin] Part VI: Methodological Challenges and New Developments 34. The Dependent Variable in Election Studies: Studying Respondents or Responses as Units of Analysis [Cees van Der Eijk] 35. The Quest for Representative Survey Samples [Laura Stoker and Andrew McCall] 36. Horses For Courses: Using Internet Surveys for Researching Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour [Edward Fieldhouse and Chris Prosser] 37. The Use of Aggregate Data in the Study of Voting Behavior: Ecological Inference, Ecological Fallacy and Other Applications [Luana Russo] 38. Election Forecasting [Stephen Fisher] 39. Field Experiments in Political Behavior [Donald Green and Erin A. York] 40. Making Inferences About Elections and Public Opinion Using Incidentally Collected Data [Jon Mellon]
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The University of Michigan Press Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy
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£32.25
The University of Michigan Press American Public Opinion on the Iraq War
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