Citizen Politics : Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Societies

This is a book about people - as citizens, voters, protesters, campaign workers, community activists party members, and political spectators. Thorough, well-written and enormously informative, Citizen Politics is a valuable opportunity to examine political behavior in the United States within the context of other industrial democracies. Focusing on the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and France in a broad cross-national context, Russell Dalton offers the argument that the quality of citizen politics is alive and well whereas the institutions of democracy are in disarray.

Russell J. Dalton is director of the Center for the Study of Democracy and professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine. His scholarly interests include comparative political behavior, political parties, social movements, and empirical democratic theory