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Product Description: Citizens living in presidential or parliamentary systems face different political choices as do voters casting votes in elections governed by rules of proportional representation or plurality. Political commentators seem to know how such rules influence political behavior...read more

Product Description: As a consequence of various rounds of EU enlargements, the degree of cultural diversity in Europe has intensified - a phenomenon which is increasingly perceived as problematic by many EU citizens. This fascinating book not only empirically explores the current state of the identity and the legitimacy of the EU as viewed by its citizens, but also evaluates their attitudes towards it...read more

The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines.What 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 cross-national literature of citizen behavior and the relationship between citizens and their governments. It will become the first point of reference for scholars and students interested in these key issues.

Product Description: What is the relationship between democracy and political culture in countries undergoing major systemic change? Have subjective political orientations of citizens been important in shaping the development of democracy in central and eastern Europe after the fall of communism? These core questions are tackled by an impressive range of twenty political scientists, sixteen of which are based in the central and eastern European countries covered in this essential new book...read more

Product Description: The book compares five newly emerged democra¬cies in Europe, South East Asia, Latin America and Africa. Cutting across vastly different historical and cultural backgrounds it tells the story of how societies come to terms with a painful past and how politics, culture and the economy intertwine in the process of creating new democratic nations...read more

Product Description: Political modernization via the advent of mass communications has served to produce unprecedented levels of communication skills between executive, legislative and administrative elites and modern citizens. This Handbook draws on multidisciplinary insights and the experiences of campaign practitioners to provide a comprehensive guide to planning, implementing and measuring public information and communication campaigns using survey research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Political modernization via the advent of mass communications has served to produce unprecedented levels of communication skills between executive, legislative and administrative elites and modern citizens. This Handbook draws on multidisciplinary insights and the experiences of campaign practitioners to provide a comprehensive guide to planning, implementing and measuring public information and communication campaigns using survey research...read more

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Product Description: Singling out the ten fundamental components of the view that representative democracy is under threat, the book goes on to test them empirically by drawing on the extraordinary data set supplied by the Beliefs in Government research project. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Der vorliegende Band ist der siebte in der Reihe der von den beiden Herausgebern betreuten Buchpublikationen zu Bundestagswahlen und widmet sich der Bundestagswahl 1994. Die inzwischen selbstverständlich gewordene Kontinuität wahlsoziologischer Datenbasen gestattet auch diesmal zwei Schwerpunktsetzungen...read more

Product Description: In democracies, contemporary politics is party politics, and parties serve to organize the political process even as they ensure democratic representation of minority and majority policy preferences. How do they do this? In great part, as this ambitious survey shows, parties translate policy preferences into policy priorities by articulating and enacting clearly defined party platforms...read more

Product Description: Es gehort zu der Tradition dieser Serie von nunmehr funf Buchern uber die deut schen Bundestagswahlen seit 1980 -nicht gezahlt die bis zur Bundestagswahl 1961 zuruckreichenden anderen Veroffentlichungen unter Beteiligung dieser Herausge ber! -, dass in der Einfuhrung keine zusammenfassende kurze Darstellung der ein zelnen Kapitel folgt, sondern einige systematische Aspekte der deutschen Wahlfor schung angesprochen werden...read more

Product Description: Max Kaase Universitat Mannheim, Lehrstuhl flir Politische Wissenschaft und International Vergleichendc Sozialforschung Hans-Dieter Klingemann Freie Universitat Berlin, Zentralinstitut flir sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung Das hiermit vorgelegte Buch kniipft in vielerlei Hinsicht in Problemdiagnose und 1 Zielsetzung unmittelbar an eine VerOffentlichung aus dem Jahre 1977 zur gleichen Thematik an...read more

Product Description: Hans-Dieter Klingemann und Max Kaase Problemstellungen der Politischen Psychologie heute 9 Teill Politische Sozialisation Wolfgang W. Weift Oberlegungen fur ein theoretisches Modell politischer Sozialisation 37 Siegfried Preiser und Wolfgang Wannenmacher Sozialisations-, Situations-und Kognitionsbedingungen sozialen und politischen Handelns ...read more