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DPI-616

PublicOpinion

PippaNorris

Fall2017

Contactdetails:......................................................................................................................................2Coursesynopsis......................................................................................................................................2ClassSchedule:.......................................................................................................................................3Requiredbooks:.....................................................................................................................................4Assignments:... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 5

(i)Projectplan–4Oct(10%)..................................................................................................................5(ii)Draftproject–30Oct(30%).............................................................................................................5(iii)Finalproject–29Nov(50%)............................................................................................................5ClassParticipation(10%)........................................................................................................................5

Requiredandsupplementaryreadings.........................................................................................6Resources.............................................................................................................................................12


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Contact details: Classtime: Monday/Wednesdays2.45-4.00pmClassplace: Taubman401Shopping: Monday28Aug2017Firstclass: Wednesday6Sept2017Lastclass: Wednesday29Nov2017Lecturer: PippaNorris,McGuireLecturerinComparativePoliticsOffice: Littauer110,KennedySchoolofGovernmentOfficeHours: Tuesdays2.00-4.00pmSignupfirstvia:http://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/bobwpTel: (617)4951475Email: [email protected] #PippaN15Projectwebsite www.electoralintegrityproject.comPersonalwebsitewww.pippanorris.comClasswebsite:https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/33400Assistant: PatriciaTimmonsOffice: Rubenstein–110BTel: 617-495-8660Email: [email protected]: Courseassignments,noexam-1credit

Course synopsis Thiscourseprovidesthecoreconceptualtools,theoreticalinsights,andpracticalskillsforanalyzingpublicopinion.Theaimistosharpenyouranalyticalunderstandingofpublicopinionanddeveloppracticalskillsinsurveyanalysis.Each week is divided into two sessions. Monday classes provide the theoretical framework forunderstandingpublicopinionincludingthenatureofmassbeliefs,policyattitudes,politicalparticipation,value change, elections and parties, voting behavior, social cleavages and partisan orientations,knowledgeandbeliefs,themediaandcampaigns,andthenatureofpublicopinion.ItcoverstheseissuesbycomparingtheUnitedStateswithothermajorcomparablepostindustrialsocietiesaswellasacrossabroader range of developing societies around the world. The course will use a broadly comparativemethodology incorporating evidence from a wide range of data sources and countries, includingdevelopedanddevelopingsocieties.Wednesdayclassesprovideanalyticalandstatisticalresearchskillstounderstandthesetopicsanddeepenapplied skills, working hands-on from web-based applications and shared datasets, for example, theAmerican National Election Survey, the U.S. General Social Survey, the Eurobarometer, the EuropeanSocialSurvey,theAfro-barometer,theWorldValuesSurvey,theInternationalSocialSurveyProgram,orequivalent. Students acquire the applied skills to use these resources for projects. The applied classescover issuesof valid and reliable researchdesign, theory construction,modelbuilding, andhypothesis-testing; survey data sources; the appropriate statistical techniques for analyzing categorical andcontinuoussurveydata;andtheprofessionalpresentationofresults.Therearenoprerequisitesfortakingthe class but basic familiarity with statistics and programs, such as Stata, SPSS and R, would beadvantageous.The course is designed for careers analyzing public opinion polling and survey research, campaignmanagement,broadcastingandjournalism,policyanalysis,andstatistics.


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ClassSchedule:

Date Mondays-Theory&literature

Wednesdays–Appliedskillexercises

Duedates(i)

1 W6Sept Introductionandroadmap 2 M11Sept Introductiontothe

Eurobarometer

3 W13Sept Massbeliefs&publicopinion 4 M18Sept IntroductiontotheEuropean

SocialSurvey

5 W20Sept Politicalparticipation 6 M25Sept IntroductiontotheInternational

SocialSurveyProgram

7 W27Sept Valuechange 8 M2Oct IntroductiontotheGallupWorld

PollandPewCentersurveys

9 W4Oct IntroductiontotheWorldValuesSurvey

Projectplan

10 W11Oct Electionsandparties 11 M16Oct IntroductiontotheAmerican

NationalElectionGuide1948-2012

12 W18Oct Socialidentities 13 M23Oct IntroductiontoNORC’sGeneral

SocialSurvey

14 W25Oct Partisanloyalties 15 M30Oct Presentdraftprojects Draft

project16 W1Nov Politicalattitudes&issues 17 M6Nov Datavisualization 18 W8Nov Supportfordemocracy 19 M13Nov 20 W15Nov Datavisualization:Tableau

Mapping

21 M20Nov Campaigns&media 22 M27Nov Presentingprofessionalresults 23 W29Nov Conclusionsandwrapup Final

projectNote: Official Harvard University holidays are as follows: Labor day: 4 Sept; Columbus Day: Oct 9;Veteran'sDay: Nov10 (Observed); Thanksgiving:Nov22-24. Endof semester, 1Dec. Pleasenote thattherearenoclassonFriday1Sept,duetoAPSA.Guestspeakersmayalsobearrangedonseveraltopics.Assignmentsareduetobehandedinatthestartoftheclassonthesedates.


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Required books: Books can be ordered direct fromAmazon.com. Further resourceswith optional supplementary sources are listedundereachweek’stopic.CitizenPolitics:PublicOpinionandPoliticalPartiesinAdvancedIndustrialDemocracies

RussellJ.Dalton

Paperback:336pages.Publisher:ChathamHousePublishers;6thedition(2014)ISBN:978-1452203003$31.48Amazon

CQWebsiteresources

TablesandFiguresPreface1.IntroductionI.POLITICSANDTHEPUBLIC2.TheNatureofMassBeliefs3.HowWeParticipate4.WhoParticipates?II.POLITICALORIENTATIONS5.ValuesinChange6.IssuesandIdeologicalOrientationsIII.THEELECTORALCONNECTION7.ElectionsandPoliticalParties8.TheSocialBasesofPartySupport9.PartisanshipandVoting10.AttitudesandVotingChoice11.PoliticalRepresentationIV.DEMOCRACYANDTHEFUTURE12.CitizensandtheDemocraticProcessAppendixA:StatisticalPrimerAppendixB:MajorDataSourcesAppendixC:WorldValuesSurveyCodebook


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Assignments:AllstudentsareexpectedtokeepupwiththerequiredreadingsandtoattendclasseseveryMondayandWednesday.Latepolicy:Barringanextraordinaryexcuse,alllateassignmentswillbemarkeddownathirdofagrade(suchasfromAtoA-)foreachdayfollowingtheduedate.(i)Projectplan–4Oct(10%)Toapplytheknowledgeandtheskillsindataanalysislearntduringtheclassyouneedtopickoneofthetopics listed in the syllabus and develop a specific analytical question, and a two-page single spacedprojectplansuggestinghowyouwillanalyzetheissue.Theaimoftheplansistogetyouthinkingandtogiveyoufeedbackatanearlystage.Theplanshouldoutline:

1. Thekeyquestionyouaimtoexploreandwhy.2. Thetheoreticalframework,model,andhypothesisyouwillanalyze.3. The comparative framework, survey data-set, key concepts and operationalmeasures youwill

usetotestthesepropositions.Moredetailswillbediscussedinclass.Youarestronglyrecommendedtopickoneoftheavailablesurveydatasets for youranalysis. The in-classdiscussionswill provide some feedback, andyoumay choose toworkcollaborativelywithothersintheclass,buteachstudentshouldsubmithisorherownreportforanindividualgrade.

(ii)Draftproject–30Oct(30%)Thedraftprojectshouldbesubmittedby30Oct.Thedraftreportshouldbeabout2,000-2,500wordsinlengthandorganizedwiththefollowingsections:

I. IntroductionII. Literaturereview,theoreticalframework,andhypotheses.III. Researchdesign,data,andmethodsofanalysis.IV. Preliminarydescriptionofthedatafindings.

Theaimistohandinadraftreportsothatyouhavetimeforfeedbackandrevisionbeforesubmittingthefinalandexpandedversion.(iii)Finalproject–29Nov(50%)Thefinalprojectisduetobesubmittedby29Nov.Thefinalproject,incorporatingrevisedandexpandedmaterials already discussed in the draft version, should be about 4000-5,000 words in length (notincludingtechnicalappendices).Thefinalreportshouldhavethefollowingsections.

I. IntroductionII. Literaturereview,theoreticalframeworkandhypotheses.III. Researchdesign,data,andmethodsofanalysis.IV. Finalresultsandfindings(revisedandexpandedfromtheabovedraft).V. Conclusionsandimplicationsthatflowfromtheanalysis.VI. Endnotes:comprehensivelistofliteratureanddatasources.VII. TechnicalAppendices.

ClassParticipation(10%)Lastly,creditwillbegivenforclassparticipationthroughthereadings,casestudies,anddebatesaboutcontroversialissues.


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RequiredandsupplementaryreadingsNote:Thesereadingsrelatetotheclassesspecifiedintheschedule.1.Introductionandroadmap

Noreading

3.Massbeliefs&publicopinion

Istherearationalbasistopublicopinion?

Essentialreading:

RussellJ.Dalton.2014.CitizenPolitics.Chatham,NJ:ChathamHouse.Chapter2.

CathyFrankovic.2016.‘Beliefinconspiracieslargelydependsonpoliticalidentity’YouGov.https://today.yougov.com/news/2016/12/27/belief-conspiracies-largely-depends-political-iden/(DownloadtheEconomist/YouGovpoll27Dec2016inPDFonthislink)

Supplementaryreading:

Archen,ChristopherandLarryM.Bartels.2016.DemocracyforRealists.PrincetonUniversityPress.

Caplan,Bryan.2007.TheMythof theRationalVoter:WhyDemocracies chooseBadPolicies. PrincetonUniversityPress.

Converse,PhilipE.,1964.‘Thenatureofbeliefsystemsinmasspublics.’In:DavidApter.Ed.IdeologyandDiscontent.NewYork:FreePress.

Converse,PhilipE.,1970. ‘Attitudesvs.non-attitudes:thecontinuationofadialogue.’ In:E.R.Tufte.Ed.TheQuantitativeAnalysisofSocialProblems.Reading,MA:Addison-Wesley.

DelliCarpini,MichaelandScottKeeter.1996.WhatAmericansKnowaboutPoliticsandWhy itMatters.YaleUniversityPress.

Lupia,Arthur.2016.Uninformed:WhyPeopleKnowsoLittleaboutPoliticsandWhatwecanDoAboutit.OxfordUniversityPress.

Zaller,John.1992.TheNatureandOriginsofMassOpinion.NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress.

5.Politicalparticipation

WhyisvoterturnoutsolowintheUnitedStatescomparedwithequivalentWesterndemocracies?

Howimportantareinstitutionalproceduresforexplainingcross-nationalvariationsinelectoralparticipation?

Doinequalitiesinparticipationmatter?

Essentialreading:

RussellJ.Dalton.2014.CitizenPolitics.Chatham,NJ:ChathamHouse.Chapter3and4


Blais, André and Agnieszka Dobrzynska. 1998. ‘Turnout in electoral democracies.’ European Journal ofPoliticalResearch.33(2):239-261.

Blais,André.2000.ToVoteorNottoVote?TheMeritsandLimitsofRationalChoiceTheory.Pittsburgh:UniversityofPittsburghPress.


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Blais,Andre.2006.‘Whataffectsvoterturnout?’AnnualReviewofPoliticalScience.9(111-125)

Franklin,MarkN.2001.‘TheDynamicsofElectoralParticipation.’InComparingDemocracies2.Eds.LawrenceLeDuc,RichardG.NiemiandPippaNorris.London:Sage.

Gray,MarkandMikiCaul.2000.‘Decliningvoterturnoutinadvancedindustrializeddemocracies,1950to1997.’ComparativePoliticalStudies.33(9):1091-1122.

Geys,Benny.2006.Explainingvoterturnout:Areviewofaggregate-levelresearch.ElectoralStudies25(4):637-663.

Gilens,Martin.2012.AffluenceandInfluence:EconomicInequalityandPoliticalPowerinAmerica.PrincetonUniversityPress.

Han,Hahrie.2009.MovedtoAction:Motivation,participation,andInequalityinAmericanPolitics.StanfordUniversityPress.

Jackman,RobertW.andRossA.Miller.1995.‘Voterturnoutinindustrialdemocraciesduringthe1980s.’ComparativePoliticalStudies.27:467-492.

Leighley,JanandJonathanNagler.2014.WhoVotesNow?PrincetonUniversityPress.

Norris,Pippa.2002.DemocraticPhoenix.CambridgeUniversityPress.

Pérez-Liñán,Aníbal.2001.‘Neo-institutionalaccountsofvoterturnout:movingbeyondindustrialdemocracies.’ElectoralStudies.20(2):281-297.

Powell,Jr.G.Bingham.1986.‘Americanturnoutincomparativeperspective.’AmericanPoliticalScienceReview.80:17-43.

Rolfe,Meredith.2012.VoterTurnout:ASocialTheoryofPoliticalParticipation.NY:CambridgeUniversityPress.

VanHam,CarolineandK.Smets,2013,'Theembarrassmentofriches?Ameta-analysisofindividual-levelresearchonvoterturnout',ElectoralStudies,vol.32,pp.344-359,10.1016/j.electstud.2012.12.006

Wattenberg,MartinP.2002.Wherehaveallthevotersgone?Cambridge,MA:HarvardUniversityPress.

7.Valuechangeandideologicalorientations

ExplainandcritiqueInglehart’stheoryofculturalchange.

Essentialreading:

RussellJ.Dalton.2014.CitizenPolitics.Chatham,NJ:ChathamHouse.Chapter5


Abramson,PaulR.andRonaldInglehart.1995.ValueChangeinGlobalPerspective.AnnArbor,Mich:UniversityofMichiganPress.

Almond,GabrielA.andSidneyVerba.1963.TheCivicCulture:PoliticalAttitudesandDemocracyinFiveNations.Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress.

Almond,GabrielandSidneyVerba.Eds.1980.TheCivicCultureRevisited.Boston:LittleBrown.

Harrison,LawrenceE.andSamuelP.Huntington.Eds.2000.CultureMatters.NewYork:BasicBooks.

Inglehart, Ronald and Wayne E. Baker. 2000. ‘Modernization, Globalization and the Persistence ofTradition:EmpiricalEvidencefrom65Societies.’AmericanSociologicalReview.65:19-55.

Inglehart,Ronald.1977.TheSilentRevolution:ChangingValuesandPoliticalStylesAmongWestern


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Publics.Princeton,N.J:PrincetonUniversityPress.

Inglehart,Ronald.1990.CultureShiftinAdvancedIndustrialSociety.Princeton,N.J:PrincetonUniversityPress.

Inglehart,Ronald.1997.ModernizationandPost-modernization:Cultural,EconomicandPoliticalChangein43Societies.Princeton,NJ:PrincetonUniversityPress.Chapter1pp7-50andChapter3pp.67-107.

Inglehart,Ronald.2003.‘HowSolidisMassSupportforDemocracyandHowDoWeMeasureIt?’PS:PoliticalScienceandPolitics.

Klingemann,Hans-DieterandDieterFuchs.1995.CitizensandtheState.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress.

Norris,PippaandRonaldInglehart.2004.Sacredandsecular:ReligionandPoliticsworldwide.CambridgeUniversityPress.Chaptersavailablefromwww.pippanorris.com

Welzel,Chris,RonaldInglehart,andHans-DieterKlingemann.2003.‘Thetheoryofhumandevelopment:Across-culturalanalysis.’EuropeanJournalofPoliticalResearch42(3):341-379.

10.Electionsandparties

Whatexplainstheriseofelectoralsupportforpopulistpartiesandleaders?

Dovoterscareaboutissuesofelectoralintegrity?

Essentialreading:



Bartolini, Stephano and Peter Mair. 1990. Identity, Competition, and Electoral Availability: TheStabilizationofEuropeanElectorates,1885-1985.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.

Budge, Ian, David Robertson andDerek Hearl. Eds. 1987. Ideology, Strategy and Party Change: SpatialAnalysisofPostwarElectionProgrammes in19Democracies. Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.

Dalton, Russell J. and Martin Wattenberg. Ed. 2001. Parties without Partisans. New York: OxfordUniversityPress.

Eijk, Cees van der,Mark Franklin et al. 1996.Choosing Europe? The European Electorate andNationalPoliticsintheFaceoftheUnion.AnnArbor:UniversityofMichiganPress.

Hsieh,JohnFuh-ShengandDavidNewman.Eds.2002.HowAsiaVotes.NewYork:ChathamHouse.

Lijphart,Arend.1994.ElectoralSystemsandPartySystems:AStudyofTwenty-SevenDemocracies,1945-1990.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress.

Nohlen,Dieter,FlorianGrotz,andChristofHartmann.Eds.2002.ElectionsinAsiaandthePacific:ADataHandbook.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress.

Nohlen, Dieter, Michael Krennerich, and Bernhard Thibaut. Eds.1999. Elections in Africa: A DataHandbook.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress.

Powell, Jr. G. Bingham. 2000. Elections as Instruments of Democracy. New Haven, CT: Yale UniversityPress.

Sartori, Giovanni. 1976. Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis. New York: CambridgeUniversityPress.

Taagepera,Rein,andMatthewSobergShugart.1989.SeatsandVotes:TheEffectsandDeterminantsofElectoralSystems.NewHaven:YaleUniversityPress.


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12.Socialcleavages

Hasidentitypoliticsfadedovertimeorbeenreinvented?

Essentialreading:



Clark,TerryNicholsandSeymourMartinLipset.Eds.2001.TheBreakdownofClassPolitics.Baltimore,MD:TheJohnsHopkinsPress.

Crewe,IvorandDavidDenver.Eds.1985.ElectoralChangeinWesternDemocracies:PatternsandSourcesofElectoralVolatility.NewYork:St.Martin'sPress

Evans,Geoffrey.1999.TheDeclineofClassPolitics?Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress.

Franklin,Mark,TomMackie,HenryValen,etal.1992.ElectoralChange:ResponsestoEvolvingSocialandAttitudinalStructuresinWesternCountries.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.

Heath,Anthony,RogerJowell,andJohnCurtice.1985.HowBritainVotes.Oxford:PergamonPress.

Heath,Anthony,RogerJowell,andJohnCurtice.2001.TheRiseofNewLabour.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress.

Heath,Anthony,RogerJowell,JohnCurtice,GeoffreyEvans,JuliaField,andSharonWitherspoon.1991.UnderstandingPoliticalChange:TheBritishVoter1964-1987.Oxford:Pergamon.

Lipset,SeymourMartinandSteinRokkan.1967.PartySystemsandVoterAlignments.NewYork:FreePress.

Manza,JeffandClemBrooks.1999.SocialCleavagesandPoliticalChange:VoterAlignmentsandU.S.PartyCoalitions.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress.

Nie,Norman,SidneyVerbaandJohnPetrocik.1976.TheChangingAmericanVoter.Cambridge,MA:HarvardUniversityPress.

White,Stephen,RichardRoseandIanMcAllister.1996.HowRussiaVotes.NewJersey,ChathamHouse.Whitefield,S.2002.‘Politicalcleavagesandpost-communistpolitics.’AnnualReviewofPoliticalScience.5:

181-200.

14.Partisanorientations

Does‘thepartydecide’?

Havepartisanidentitiesfadedorbeingreinforcedinvotingchoices?

Essentialreading:



Blais André, Elizabeth Gidengil, Richard Nadeau, Neil Nevitte. 2001. ‘Measuring party identification:Britain,Canada,andtheUnitedStates.’PoliticalBehavior23(1):5-22.

Butler,DavidE.,andDonaldStokes.1974.PoliticalChangeinBritain.Revisededition.London:Macmillan.


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Campbell,Angus,PhilipConverse,WarrenMillerandDonaldStokes.1960.TheAmericanVoter.NewYork:Wiley.

Campbell, Angus, Philip Converse, Warren Miller and Donald Stokes. 1966. Elections and the Political

Order.NewYork:Wiley.Dalton,RussellJ.,ScottFlanagan,andPaulAllenBeck,Eds.1984.ElectoralChangeinAdvancedIndustrial

Democracies:RealignmentorDealignment?Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress.

Klingemann,Hans-DieterandDieterFuchs.1995.CitizensandtheState.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress.

Miller,ArthurH.2000.‘Thedevelopmentofpartyidentificationinpost-sovietsocieties.’AmericanJournalofPoliticalScience.44(4):667-686.

Miller,WarrenE.andJ.MerrillShanks.1996.TheNewAmericanVoter.Cambridge:HarvardUniversityPress.

SchicklerE.andD.P.Green.1997. ‘Thestabilityofparty identification inwesterndemocracies -Resultsfromeightpanelsurveys.’ComparativePoliticalStudies30(4):450-483.

Schmitt,Herman,andSörenHolmberg.1995.‘PoliticalPartiesinDecline?’InCitizensandtheState,Eds.Hans-DieterKlingemannandDieterFuchs.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress.

Thomassen,Jacques.1976.'Partyidentificationasacross-nationalconcept:itsmeaningintheNetherlands'.InPartyIdentificationandBeyond.Eds.IanBudge,IvorCreweandDennisFarlie.London:JohnWiley.

Thomassen, Jacques. 1994. ‘The intellectual history of election studies.’ European Journal of PoliticalResearch25:239–245.

16.Politicalattitudesandissuevoting

Doissuesimpactvotingchoices?

Essentialreading:

RussellJ.Dalton.2014.CitizenPolitics.Chatham,NJ:ChathamHouse.Chapters6and10


Aarts,Kees,S.E.MacDonald,andG.Rabinowitz.1999.‘IssuesandpartycompetitionintheNetherlands.’ComparativePoliticalStudies.32(1):63-99.

Anderson, Christopher. 1995. Blaming the Government: Citizens and the Economy in Five EuropeanDemocracies.NewYork:M.E.Sharpe.

Budge, Ian, Klingemann, H-D, Volkens, A., Bara, J., Tanenbaum, E. (2001)Mapping Policy Preferences.EstimatesforParties,Electors,andGovernments1945-1998,Oxford:OUP

Budge, Ian, David Robertson andDerek Hearl. Eds. 1987. Ideology, Strategy and Party Change: SpatialAnalysisofPostwarElectionProgrammes in19Democracies. Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.

Dorussen,H.andM.Taylor.2001.‘Thepoliticalcontextofissue-priorityvoting:coalitionsandeconomicvotingintheNetherlands,1970-1999.’ElectoralStudies.20(3):399-426.

Downs,Anthony.1955.Aneconomictheoryofdemocracy.HarperRow.

Eulau, Heinz andMichael S. Lewis-Beck, Eds. 1985. Economic Conditions and Electoral Outcomes: TheUnitedStateandWesternEurope.NewYork:AgathonPress,Inc.

Fiorina,MorrisP.1981.RetrospectiveVotinginAmericanNationalElections.NewHaven:YaleUniversityPress.


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Karp Jeff A. and Susan A. Banducci. 2002. ‘Issues and party competition under alternative electoralsystems.’PartyPolitics.8(1):123-141.

Klingemann,Hans-Dieter,RichardHofferbertandIanBudge.1994.Parties,PoliciesandDemocracy.Boulder,Co:Westview.

Laver,Michael.(ed).2001.EstimatingthePolicyPositionsofPoliticalActors,London:Routledge.

Lewis-Beck, Michael S. 1988. Economics and Elections: The Major Western Democracies. Ann Arbor:UniversityofMichiganPress.

Norpoth,Helmut,MichaelS.Lewis-Beck,andJean-DominiqueLafay.1991.Economicsandpolitics:the

calculusofsupport.AnnArbor:UniversityofMichiganPress.

Lewis-Beck,MichaelS.andM.Stegmaier.2000. ‘Economicdeterminantsofelectoraloutcomes.’AnnualReviewofPoliticalScience.3:183-219.

18.Supportfordemocracy

Areyoungpeoplegrowingdisillusionedwithliberaldemocracy?

Haspublicsupportfordemocraticvaluesstalled?

Whataretheimplicationsofthegrowthin‘criticalcitizens’?

Essentialreading:



Norris,Pippa.2000.CriticalCitizens:Globalsupportfordemocracy.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress.Chapter1.(Availableonlineatwww.pippanorris.com)

Norris,Pippa.2011.DemocraticDeficits.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress.

Nye,JosephS.,PhilipD.Zelikow,andDavidC.King.1997WhyPeopleDon'tTrustGovernment,eds.Cambridge:HarvardUniversityPress.

Pharr,SusanandRobertPutnam.Eds.2000.DisaffectedDemocracies:What’sTroublingtheTrilateralCountries?Princeton,NJ:PrincetonUniversityPress.

Putnam,RobertD.Ed.2002DemocraciesinFlux.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress.

RobertD.Putnam.2000.BowlingAlone:TheCollapseandRevivalofAmericanCommunity.NY:SimonandSchuster.

Rose,Richard,andWilliamMishler.1996.“TestingtheChurchillHypothesis:PopularSupportforDemocracyanditsAlternatives.”JournalofPublicPolicy16:29-58.

Rose,Richard,WilliamMishlerandChristianHaerpfer.1998.DemocracyandItsAlternativesinPost-CommunistEurope:TestingtheChurchillHypothesis.Cambridge:PolityPress.

21.Campaigns&media

Essentialreading:

Norris,Pippa.2000.AVirtuousCircle:PoliticalCommunicationinPost-IndustrialDemocracies.NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress.Introductionandconclusion.Chaptersonlineatwww.pippanorris.com.


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Bartels,Larry.1993.Messagereceived:thepoliticalimpactofmediaexposure.AmericanPoliticalScienceReview87:267–285.

Bennett,W.LanceandRobertEntman.Eds.2000.MediatedPolitics.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.

Bowler,ShaunandDavidFarrell,Eds.1992.ElectoralStrategiesandPoliticalMarketing.Basingstoke:Macmillan.

Cappella,JosephN.andKathleenH.Jamieson.1997.SpiralofCynicism:ThePressandthePublicGood.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress.

McQuail,Denis.1998.MassCommunicationTheory.London:Sage.

Norris,Pippa,JohnCurtice,DavidSanders,MargaretScammellandHolliSemetko.1999.OnMessage:CommunicatingtheCampaign.London:Sage.

Norris,Pippa.2001.DigitalDivide.CUP.

Guther,RichardandAnthonyMughan.2000.DemocracyandtheMedia.CUP.

23.Conclusions:Wrapupandevaluation

Resources Afro-Barometerhttp://www.afrobarometer.org/

AsiaBarometerwww.eastasiabarometer.organdhttp://www.asianbarometer.org/

AmericanNationalElectionStudiesGuidetoPublicOpinionandElectoralBehaviorhttp://www.electionstudies.org/nesguide/nesguide.htm

ElectoralIntegrityProjectwww.electoralintegrityproject.com

EuroBarometerhttp://ec.europa.eu/COMMFrontOffice/publicopinion/index.cfm

EuropeanSocialSurveyhttp://naticent02.uuhost.uk.uu.net

GallupInternationalVoiceofthePeoplewww.voice-of-the-people.net/

Globalbarometershttp://www.globalbarometer.net/

NORC’sGeneralSocialSurveyhttps://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/

InternationalSocialSurveyProgramhttp://www.issp.org/

Latino-barometrowww.latinobarometro.org

LatinAmericanPublicOpinionProject(LAPOP)http://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/

NewEuropeBarometerwww.cspp.strath.ac.uk

PewGlobalSurveyshttp://pewglobal.org/

RoperCenterArchiveiPollonline(ViaHollis)https://ropercenter-cornell-edu.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/

WorldValuesStudy1981-2005http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/

WorldPublicOpinionhttp://www.worldpublicopinion.org/

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