List of Tables and FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsCHAPTER 1. Introduction Comparing Public Opinion across Nations Choosing Nations to Compare A New Style of Citizen Politics Suggested Readings NotesPART I. POLITICS AND THE PUBLICCHAPTER 2. The Nature of Citizen Beliefs The Supercitizen Reality versus a Theoretical Ideal Elitist Theory of Democracy Political Sophistication Reconsidered Politics and the Public Suggested Readings NotesCHAPTER 3. How We Participate Modes of Participation Voting Campaign Activity Direct Contacting Communal Activity Protest and Contentious Action Wired Activism Changing Publics and Political Participation Suggested Readings NotesCHAPTER 4. Who Participates? The Civic Voluntarism Model Who Votes? Campaign Activity Direct Contacting Communal Activity Who Protests? Internet Activism Comparing the Correlates of Different Activities Participation and the Democratic Process Suggested Readings NotesPART II. POLITICAL ORIENTATIONSCHAPTER 5. Values in Change The Nature of Value Change The Distribution of Values How Values Change The Consequences of Value Change Social Change and Value Change Suggested Readings NotesCHAPTER 6.

Issues and Ideological Orientations Socioeconomic Issues and the State Cultural Issues Foreign Policy Opinions Left/Right Orientations Public Opinion and Political Change Suggested Readings NotesPART III. THE ELECTORAL CONNECTIONCHAPTER 7. Elections and Political Parties The History of Party Systems Four Contemporary Party Systems The Structure of Political Alignments Party Systems Today Suggested Readings NotesCHAPTER 8. The Social Bases of Party Support The Logic of Social Groups and Voting Social Class and the Vote Why Is Class Voting Decreasing? Religion and the Vote Other Social Group Differences The Transformation of Social Cleavages Suggested Readings NotesCHAPTER 9. Partisanship and Voting A Sociopsychological Model of Voting Partisan Attitudes The Consequences of Partisanship Partisan Dealignment Causes of Dealignment The Consequences of Dealignment Cognitive Mobilization and Apartisans Politics in a Dealigned Era Suggested Readings NotesCHAPTER 10. Attitudes and Voting Choice Principles of Issue Voting Position Issues and the Vote Policy Cleavages and the Vote Performance Issues and the Vote Candidate Images and the Vote The End of the Causal Funnel One Electorate or Many? Citizen Politics and Voting Behavior Suggested Readings NotesCHAPTER 11. Political Representation Collective Correspondence Dyadic Correspondence The Party Government Model The Impact of Representation Suggested Readings NotesPART IV. DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURECHAPTER 12.

Citizens and the Democratic Process The Types of Political Support Declining Confidence in Authorities Views of Political Institutions Support for a Democratic Regime Community Support Dissatisfied Democrats The New Style of Democratic Politics Suggested Readings NotesAppendix A: Statistical PrimerAppendix B: Major Data SourcesAppendix C: 2014 International Social Survey CodebookReferencesIndex.