Political Parties and Democratic Linkage examines how political parties ensure the functioning of the democratic process in contemporary societies. Based on unprecedented cross-national data, the authors find that the process of party government is still alive and well in most contemporary democracies.
This provocative book sheds new light on the dealignment trend with the emergence of an independent voter Dalton is calling the Apartisan American.
An overview of American political parties and interest groups which discusses their relationship to concepts of democracy, and examines political science theories. It considers social, political and economic interest groups...
In addition to its comprehensive, thematic examination of political values, political activity, voting, and public images of government within a cross-national context, the updated edition of this bestseller explores how cultural issues, ...
In this third edition of The Good Citizen, Russell Dalton uses current national public opinion surveys, including new evidence from 2018 Pew Center survey data, to show how Americans are changing their views on what good citizenship means.
The process of electoral change is accelerating in contemporary democracies, and this book explains why.
Since its publication in 1980, Kay Lawson's Political Parties and Linkage has garnered significant attention not only in the field of party research, but also in the field of political science as a whole.
Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research.
Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change examines how political leaders and the public respond to reform pressures at a pivotal moment in a mass democracy: the election campaign.
This book assembles an unprecedented set of international public opinion surveys to identify the individual, institutional, and political factors that produce these trends.
This volumes examines two major developments in contemporary democratic politics- the change in party-society linkage and political personalization-and their relation to each other.