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Stealth Democracy
Americans often complain about the operation of their government, but scholars have never developed a complete picture of people’s preferred type of government. In this provocative …
The Authoritarian Dynamic
What is the basis for intolerance? This book addresses that question by developing a universal theory about what causes intolerance of difference in general, which includes racism, …
The Rationalizing Voter
Political behavior is the result of innumerable unnoticed forces and conscious deliberation is often a rationalization of automatically triggered feelings and thoughts. Citizens …
Congress as Public Enemy
This timely book describes and explains the American people’s alleged hatred of their own branch of government, the US Congress. Intensive focus group sessions held across the …
Post-Broadcast Democracy
The media environment is changing. Today in the United States, the average viewer can choose from hundreds of channels, including several twenty-four hour news channels. News is on …
Political Disagreement
Political disagreement is widespread within the communication network of ordinary citizens; furthermore, political diversity within these networks is entirely consistent with a …
Negativity in Democratic Politics
This book explores the political implications of the human tendency to prioritize negative information over positive information. Drawing on literatures in political science, …
Impersonal Influence
People's perceptions of the attitudes and experiences of mass collectives are an increasingly important force in contemporary political life. In Impersonal Influence, Mutz goes …
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
In this 1992 book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political …
American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism
The civil rights movement and immigration reform transformed American politics in the mid-1960s. Demographic diversity and identity politics raised the challenge of e pluribus unum …
Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa
Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa investigates the degree to which the political culture of South Africa - the beliefs, values, and attitudes toward politics held by ordinary …
White Identity Politics
Amidst discontent over America's growing diversity, many white Americans now view the political world through the lens of a racial identity. Whiteness was once thought to be …