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"There has been a growing chorus of political analysts with doomsday predictions of an American public that is uncivil, disengaged, and alienated. And it's only getting worse with a younger generation of Americans who do not see the value in voting. The good news is that the bad news is wrong. 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. It's not about recreating the halcyon politics of a generation ago, but recognition that new patterns of citizenship call for new processes and new institutions that reflect the values of the contemporary American public. Trends in participation, tolerance, and policy priorities reflect a younger generation that is more engaged, more tolerant, and more supportive of social justice. The Good Citizen shows how a younger generation is creating new norms of citizenship that are leading to a renaissance of democratic participation. An important comparative chapter in the book showcases cross-national comparisons that further demonstrate the vitality of American democracy"--

Parties, party choice, and partisanship in East Asia / Russell J. Dalton, Yun-han Chu, and Doh Chull Shin -- Electoral systems and party systems / Benjamin Reilly -- The patterns of party alignment / Russell J. Dalton and Aiji Tanaka -- The development of partisanship / Emile C. J. Sheng -- Social structure and party support / Ian McAllister -- Value cleavages, issues, and partisanship / Aie-Rie Lee -- Partisanship and citizen politics / Yun-han Chu and Min-hua Huang -- Partisanship and democratization / Doh Chull Shin and Rollin F. Tusalem -- Citizens, political parties, and democratic development / Doh Chull Shin, Russell J. Dalton, and Yun-han Chu

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation : the old realities and the new / John M. Whiteley -- The compelling realities of Mayak / John M. Whiteley -- Public perceptions of environmental conditions / John C. Pierce, Russell J. Dalton, and Andrei Zaitsev -- The development of interest group activism at Hanford / William Schreckhise -- A history of environmental activism in Chelyabinsk / Paula Garb and Galina Komarova -- Environmental attitudes and the new environmental paradigm / Russell J. Dalton ... [et al.] -- Environmental thinking among environmental leaders in Russia / Paula Garb -- The mobilization of public support for environmental action / John C. Pierce, Russell J. Dalton, and Ira Gluck -- The governmental response at Hanford / Nicholas P. Lovrich and John M. Whiteley -- Still tilting against the environment : the struggle over the Russian governmental response / John M. Whiteley -- Conclusion : Legacies of the nuclear age / Russell J. Dalton ... [et al.]

Machine generated contents note: Foreword: pushing the envelope: analyzing the impact of values Marita R. Inglehart; 1. Political culture and value change Russell J. Dalton and Christian Welzel; Part I. Changing Values: 2. Value change over a third of a century: the evidence for generational replacement Paul R. Abramson; 3. The decline of deference revisited: evidence after twenty-five years Neil Nevitte; 4. Enlightening people: the spark of emancipative values Christian Welzel and Alejandro Moreno; Part II. Changing Images of Government: 5. Reassessing the civic-culture model Russell J. Dalton and Doh Chull Shin; 6. Dissatisfied democrats: democratic maturation in old and new democracies Hans-Dieter Klingemann; 7. Support for democracy in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia Christian Haerpfer and Kseniya Kizilova; Part III. The Impact of Cultural Change: 8. The structure and sources of global environmental attitudes Robert Rohrschneider, Matt Miles and Mark Peffley; 9. Social change and the politics of protest Tor Georg Jakobsen and Ola Listhaug; 10. Mecca or oil?: why Arab states lag in gender equality Pippa Norris; 11. Allegiance eroding: people's dwindling willingness to fight in wars Bi Puranen; 12. From allegiant to assertive citizens Christian Welzel and Russell J. Dalton

The process of electoral change is accelerating in contemporary democracies, and this book explains why. The emergence of Green parties in the 1980s and recent far right parties, Brexit and Trump's 2016 victory are parts of this overall process. 0'Political Realignment' tracks the evolution of citizen and elite opinions on economic and cultural issues from the 1970s to the 2010s-and the impact of these changes on electoral politics and public policy. Citizen positions on these cleavages have realigned over time, producing a similar realignment in the structure of the party systems to represent these demands. Economic issues remain important, now joined by divisions on cultural issues as a backlash to modernization. Assembling an unprecedented time series of empirical evidence, this study explains the new forces of elector change in both Europe and the United States

Political equality as the foundation of democracy -- Opening political doors -- For richer or poorer, politically speaking -- Civil society mobilizing action -- Age, generations, and participation -- What's a good citizen to do? -- The special case of online activism -- Contextual and inequality / Russell J. Dalton and Steve Weldon -- Is the gap widening? -- The political leanings of the choir -- Democracy in unequal terms

This volume 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