Información General

• Autores: Richard Günther (coord.)
• Editores: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Año de publicación: 2007
• País: España
• Idioma: español
• ISBN: 9780199202843
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Resumen

• This book presents the results of systematic comparative analyses of electoral behavior and support for democracy in 13 countries on four continents. It is based on national election surveys held in "old" and "new" democracies in Europe (Germany, Britain, Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria), North and South America (the United States, Chile and Uruguay), and Asia (Hong Kong) between 1990 and 2004. It is methodologically innovative, notwithstanding the fact that its core concern with "political intermediation" (i.e., the flow of political information from parties and candidates to voters through the mass-communications media, membership in secondary associations, and direct, face-to-face contacts within interpersonal networks) was first introduced to the study of electoral behavior by Paul Lazarsfeld and his collaborators in the 1940s. In addition to reviving that long-neglected analytical framework, this book breaks new ground by systematically exploring the impact of socio-political values on electoral behavior. It also analyzes the role of political intermediation in forming basic attitudes towards democracy (which are crucial for the consolidation of new democracies), and, in turn, channeling those orientations into various forms of political behavior. Some of the findings presented in this volume are dramatic, and clearly reveal that these channels of information are among the most powerful factors influencing the development of political attitudes and partisan electoral behavior. So, too, are socio-political values in some countries (particularly the United States). This volume is the first book-length product of the now 18-country Comparative National Elections Project.

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Listado de artículos

• • Introduction: Intermediation, information and electoral politics

    Richard Günther, José Ramón Montero Gibert, Hans-Jürgen Puhle

    págs. 1-28

    

  • Democracy and intermediation: some attitudinal and behavioural dimensions

    Richard Günther, José Ramón Montero Gibert, Mariano Torcal Loriente

    págs. 29-74

    

  • The mass media in third-wave democracies: gravediggers or seedsmen of democratic consolidation?

    Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Katrin Voltmer

    págs. 75-134

    

  • Intermediation through secondary associations: the organizational context of electoral behaviour

    Paolo Belluci, Marco Maraffi, Paolo Segatti

    págs. 135-182

    

  • The flow of political information: personal discussants, the media, and partisans

    Bradley M. Richardson, Paul Allen Beck

    págs. 183-207

    

  • Voting and intermediation: informational biases and electoral choices in comparative perspective

    Pedro Magalhaes

    págs. 208-254

    

  • Value cleavages and partisan conflict

    Richard Günther, Hsin-chi Kuan

    págs. 255-320

    

  • Conclusions: processes of intermediation, electoral politics and political support in old and new democracies

    Hans-Jürgen Puhle, José Ramón Montero Gibert, Richard Günther

    págs. 321-345