TY - BOOK AU - Aldrich,John H. AU - Ansolabehere,Stephen AU - Carmines,Edward G. AU - Citrin,Jack AU - Dilliplane,Susanna AU - Ellis,Christopher AU - Ensley,Michael J. AU - Freeze,Melanie AU - Green,Donald P. AU - Hersh,Eitan AU - Highton,Benjamin AU - Jackman,Simon AU - Jacobson,Gary C. AU - Knee,Matthew R. AU - Krasno,Jonathan AU - Lupia,Arthur AU - Magleby,David B. AU - McGhee,Eric AU - Mutz,Diana AU - Nelson,Candice J. AU - Page,Benjamin I. AU - Pearson,Kathryn AU - Schickler,Eric AU - Sides,John AU - Sniderman,Paul M. AU - Stimson,James A. AU - Vavreck,Lynn AU - Wagner,Michael W. AU - Westlye,Mark C. AU - Xie,Tao TI - Facing the Challenge of Democracy: Explorations in the Analysis of Public Opinion and Political Participation SN - 9780691151113 AV - JK1764 U1 - 323.0420973 23 PY - 2011///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Freedom & KW - Security KW - Civil Rights KW - Human Rights KW - Political Process KW - Political Parties KW - Political participation KW - United States KW - Public opinion KW - Politics and government KW - 1989- KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections KW - bisacsh KW - 1950s sociology KW - 2008 National Annenberg Election Study KW - American party system KW - American politics KW - American public opinion KW - Election Day registration KW - George W. Bush KW - John McCain KW - NAES KW - Pure Independents KW - Sarah Palin KW - U.S. elections KW - U.S. senators KW - U.SЃhina relations KW - Who Votes? KW - activism KW - alternative modeling strategies KW - campaign strategy KW - candidate-centered campaigns KW - candidate-centered voting KW - challenger partisans KW - citizen competence KW - citizen preferences KW - citizens KW - civic engagement KW - closing dates KW - cognition KW - conflict of interest KW - congressional elections KW - conservative identification KW - cosmopolitan orientation KW - cosmopolitanism KW - democracy KW - democratic representation KW - election outcomes KW - electoral preferences KW - elite-driven theory KW - foreign policy KW - ideological conservatives KW - ideological consistency KW - ideological contradiction KW - ideological polarization KW - ideological shift KW - incumbent partisans KW - independent voter KW - independents KW - institution-free approach KW - institutions KW - issue preferences KW - job approval ratings KW - liberal policy preferences KW - mass belief systems KW - mass opinion KW - modern political campaigns KW - nonvoters KW - ordinary citizens KW - participatory bias KW - partisan bias KW - partisan differences KW - partisan differential KW - partisan polarization KW - party identification KW - party polarization KW - party-centered voting KW - polarization KW - policy preference heuristics KW - policy preferences KW - political activism KW - political behavior KW - political candidates KW - political consistency KW - political participation KW - political participations KW - political parties KW - political preferences KW - political right KW - political scientists KW - politically coherent choices KW - politics KW - public opinion surveys KW - public opinion KW - public KW - purposive belief systems KW - purposive reasoning KW - registration deadlines KW - roll-call behavior KW - social spaces KW - universal turnout KW - vote choice KW - vote misreporting KW - vote models KW - vote preference KW - vote validation study KW - voter turnout KW - voters KW - votes N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Introduction: Facing the Challenge of Democracy --; Part I: The Political Logic of Preference Consistency --; I. How Do Political Scientists Know What Citizens Want? --; II. Purposive Mass Belief Systems concerning Foreign Policy --; III. Cosmopolitanism --; IV. Running to the Right --; V. Pathways to Conservative Identification --; Part II. Polarization and the Party System --; VI. Partisan Differences in Job Approval Ratings of George W. Bush and U.S. Senators in the States --; VII. Political Participation, Polarization, and Public Opinion --; VIII. Political Parties in the Capital Economy of Modern Campaigns --; IX. Candidates and Parties in Congressional Elections --; X. The Myth of the Independent Voter Revisited --; Part III. Participation and Representation --; XI. Who Really Votes? --; XII. Who Governs if Everyone Votes? --; XIII. The Effects of Registration Laws on Voter Turnout --; XIV. Issue Preferences, Civic Engagement, and the Transformation of American Politics --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Citizens are political simpletons--that is only a modest exaggeration of a common characterization of voters. Certainly, there is no shortage of evidence of citizens' limited political knowledge, even about matters of the highest importance, along with inconsistencies in their thinking, some glaring by any standard. But this picture of citizens all too often approaches caricature. Paul Sniderman and Benjamin Highton bring together leading political scientists who offer new insights into the political thinking of the public, the causes of party polarization, the motivations for political participation, and the paradoxical relationship between turnout and democratic representation. These studies propel a foundational argument about democracy. Voters can only do as well as the alternatives on offer. These alternatives are constrained by third players, in particular activists, interest groups, and financial contributors. The result: voters often appear to be shortsighted, extreme, and inconsistent because the alternatives they must choose between are shortsighted, extreme, and inconsistent. Facing the Challenge of Democracy features contributions by John Aldrich, Stephen Ansolabehere, Edward Carmines, Jack Citrin, Susanna Dilliplane, Christopher Ellis, Michael Ensley, Melanie Freeze, Donald Green, Eitan Hersh, Simon Jackman, Gary Jacobson, Matthew Knee, Jonathan Krasno, Arthur Lupia, David Magleby, Eric McGhee, Diana Mutz, Candice Nelson, Benjamin Page, Kathryn Pearson, Eric Schickler, John Sides, James Stimson, Lynn Vavreck, Michael Wagner, Mark Westlye, and Tao Xie UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400840304?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400840304 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400840304.jpg ER -