International Journal of Public Opinion Research 2008 20(4):532-537; doi:10.1093/ijpor/edn045
© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved.
Recent Books in the Field of Public Opinion Research
Compiled by Connie de Boer
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Daniel Drache (2008). Defiant Publics. The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 198 pp., ISBN 978-0-7456-3179-0.
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In many countries, fundamental changes are occurring in the
public domain with far-reaching implications for the social,
economic, and political system. Publics have become highly critical
of institutionalized authority, and social activism and dissent
have become global phenomena. Developments in communication
technology have made the public well-informed about what is
going on in the world around them. The central idea that is
explored in this book is that new communication technologies
of text-messaging, blogging, and going online, coupled with
grassroots organizing strategies offer citizens a unique set
of opportunities to engage in public participation and to advocate
bold strategies for social change. These new technologies encourage
opportunities for social action and amplify the voice of activists.
Daniel Drache argues that the distrust and the suspicion of
governments in combination with new cultural flows of people,
ideas, and information create a political phenomenon without
historical precedent. The author discusses theoretical insights
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William G. Mayer (Ed.) (2008). The Swing Voter in American Politics. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 151 pp., ISBN 978-0-8157-5531-9.
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Devra C. Moehler (2008). Distrusting Democrats. Outcomes of Participatory Constitution Making. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 246 pp., ISBN 978-0-472-06993-4.
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Pat Lyons (2008). Public Opinion, Politics and Society in Contemporary Ireland. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Academic Press, 288 pp., ISBN 978-0-7165-2942-2.
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Howard Schuman (2008). Method and Meaning in Polls and Surveys. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 214 pp., ISBN 978-0-674-02827-2.
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José María Maravall and Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca (Eds.) (2008). Controlling Governments. Voters, Institutions, and Accountability. New York: Cambridge University Press, 311 pp., ISBN 978-0-521-71110-4.
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Michael S. Lewis-Beck, William G. Jacoby, Helmut Norpoth, and Herbert Weisberg (2008). The American Voter Revisited. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 493 pp., ISBN 978-0-472-05040-6.
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Lauren Cohen Bell, Joan L. Conners, and Theodore F. Sheckels (2008). Perspectives on Political Communication. A Case Approach. Boston, MA: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 400 pp., ISBN 978-0-205-50887-7.
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Barry Richards (2007). Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 220 pp., ISBN 978-0-230-00839-7.
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Linda A. White, Richard Simeon, Robert Vipond, and Jennifer Wallner (Eds.) (2008). The Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science. Vancouver, Canada: UBC Press, 309 pp., ISBN 978-0-7748-1428-7.
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Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu (Eds.) (2008). Southeast Asia in Political Science. Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 455 pp., ISBN 978-0-8047-6152-9.
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Ken’ichi Ikeda (2007). Seiji no reality to shakai-shinri: Heisei koizumi seiji no dynamics [Political Reality and Social Psychology: The dynamics of the Koizumi Years]. Tokyo, Japan: Bokutakusha, 316 pp., ISBN: 978-4-8332-2384-3.
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