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International Journal of Public Opinion Research 2009 21(3):384-389; doi:10.1093/ijpor/edp031
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© The Author 2009. 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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   Pablo Beramendi and Christopher J. Anderson (Eds.) (2009). Democracy, Inequality, and Representation: A Comparative Perspective. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 434 pp., ISBN 978-0-87154-088-1.
 
The contributors to this volume examine the relationship between democratic politics and income inequality in societies. The first part of the book focuses on the context of this relationship. These chapters present discussions of the central concepts, and the variations in income concepts, economic inequality, and welfare generosity across space and time. The second part of the book contains contributions which focus on the origins of inequality, and the contributors examine in these chapters how different aspects of representation of political and economic interests shape inequality. In the last and third part of the book, inequality is the independent variable and the focus turns to the influence of inequality on democratic representation. The contributing political scientists and economists use a set . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs (2009). Class War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 142 pp., ISBN 978-0-226-64455-4.
 

   Heather K. Gerken (2009). The Democracy Index: Why Our System is Failing and How to Fix it. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 181 pp., ISBN 978-0-691-13694-3.
 

   Michael Jäckel and Manfred Mai (Eds.) (2008). Medienmacht und Gesellschaft. Zum Wandel öffentlicher Kommunikation [The Power of the Mass Media and Society. About the Change of Public Communication]. Frankfurt, New York: Campus, 286 pp., ISBN 978-3-593-38593-8.
 

   Ellen Lust-Okar and Saloua Zerhouni (Eds.) (2008). Political Participation in the Middle East. Boulder, COLO: Lynne Rienner, 301 pp., ISBN 978-1-58826-602-6.
 

   Godfrey Hodgson (2009). The Myth of American Exceptionalism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 221 pp., ISBN 978-0-300-12570-2.
 

   Hans Mathias Kepplinger (2009). Politikvermittlung [The Intermediation of Politics]. Wiesbaden, Germany: VS, 210 pp., ISBN 978-3-531-16421-2.
 

   Beverley Milton-Edwards (2009). The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A People's War. New York, NY: Routledge, 228 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-41043-4.
 

   Marianne van den Boomen, Sybille Lammes, Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Joost Raessens, and Mirko Tobias Schäfer (Eds.) (2009). Digital Material: Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 303 pp., ISBN 978-90-896-4068-0.
 

   Dan Schill (2009). Stagecraft and Statecraft: Advance and Media Events in Political Communication. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 107 pp., ISBN 978-0-7391-2862-6.
 

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