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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Richard Gunther (, Professor, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University) , Jose Ramon Montero (, Professor of Political Science, Universidad Autonoma de Madris) , Hans-Jürgen Puhle (, Professor of Political Science, J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.782kg ISBN: 9780199202836ISBN 10: 0199202834 Pages: 436 Publication Date: 08 February 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Gunther, José Ramón Montero, and Hans-Jürgen Puhle: Introduction: Intermediation, Information, and Electoral Politics 2: Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero and Mariano Torcal: Democracy and Intermediation: Some Attitudinal and Behavioral Dimensions 3: Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck and Katrin Voltmer: The Mass Media in Third-Wave Democracies: Gravediggers or Seedsmen of Democratic Consolidation? 4: Paolo Bellucci, Marco Maraffi, and Paolo Segatti: Intermediation Through Secondary Associations: The Organizational Context of Electoral Behavior 5: Bradley Richardson and Paul Allen Beck: The Flow of Political Information: Personal Discussants, the Media, and Partisanship 6: Pedro C. Magalhães: Voting and Intermediation: Informational Biases and Electoral Choices in Comparative Perspective 7: Richard Gunther and Kuan Hsin-chi: Value Cleavages and Partisan Conflict 8: Hans-Jürgen Puhle, José Ramón Montero, and Richard Gunther: Conclusions: Processes of Intermediation, Electoral Politics, and Political Support in Old and New DemocraciesReviewsDemocracy, Intermediation, and Voting stands out as an important book. Its main strength is the wealth of empirical information about different political intermediaries and their impact on voting and on political cultural variables...[The book] represents a renewal of a political sociological tradition that has long been neglected. * Perspectives on Politics * Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting stands out as an important book. Its main strength is the wealth of empirical information about different political intermediaries and their impact on voting and on political cultural variables...[The book] represents a renewal of a political sociological tradition that has long been neglected. Perspectives on Politics Author InformationRichard Gunther (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) is Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University, where he has also served as Executive Director of International Studies. He is the international coordinator of the 18-country Comparative National Elections Project, of which this book is a product. Initially an expert on Spanish public policy, he subsequently broadened his research interests to deal with democratic transition and consolidation, political institutions, parties, and electoral behavior. He has been awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award and the Distinguished Service Award by the Ohio State University. Hans-Jürgen Puhle (Dr. phil., Freie Universität Berlin) is Professor of Political Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main. He has been a Fellow of Harvard and Oxford University, and has tought at the universities of Münster and Bielefeld, at Cornell, Stanford, University of Tel Aviv, Universidad de Chile, FLACSO Buenos Aires, and the Instituto Juan March Madrid. His fields of research are the comparative social and political history of Europe and the Americas, problems of modernization, comparative politics, state functions in welfare capitalism, political parties, pressure groups and social movements, nationalism and regionalism, regime transformation and problems of democratic consolidation José Ramón Montero (Ph.D., Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) is Professor of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Madrid and at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Juan March Institute, Madrid. His main research areas are political participation, political parties, political culture, and electoral behaviour. He has been a member of the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences, European Science Foundation, and is currently a member of the Academia Europea, the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Social Survey, and the Comparative National Elections Project, of which this book is a product Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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