Russell Dalton

Recent Research

Recent articles and book chapters

The Quantity and the Quality of Party Systems: Party System Polarization, its Measurement and its Consequences, Comparative Political Studies (July 2008).

The Internet and Virtual Civil Society: The New Frontier of Social Capital?, Paper published in the Center for the Study of Democracy research series, April 2008.

Citizenship Norms and the Expansion of Political Participation, Political Studies (2008) 56: 76-98.

Understanding Democracy: Data from Unlikely Places (with Doh Shin and Willy Jou), Journal of Democracy (2007) 18: 142-156.

Citizenship and the Transformation of American Society, from Russell Dalton, The Good Citizen: How Young People are Transforming American Politics. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2007, chapter 1.

Partisan Mobilization, Cognitive Mobilization, and the Changing American Electorate Electoral Studies (2007).

Democracy in Unexpected Places: The Democratic Aspirations of the Afghan Public Public Opinion Pros (April 2007).

Citizens, Democracy and Markets (with Doh Chull Shin), in Russell Dalton and Doh Chull Shin, eds. Citizens, Democracy and Markets around the Pacific Rim. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, chapter 1.

Citizenship Norms and Political Participation in America: The Good News is . . . the Bad News is Wrong, Occasional research paper, Center for Democracy and Civil Society, Georgetown University, October 2006.

What's the Matter with Kids Today?, Public Opinion Pros (April 2006).

Social Modernization and the End of Ideology Debate: Patterns of Ideological Polarization, Japanese Journal of Political Science (2006) 7: 1-22.

The Resource, Structural, and Cultural Bases of Protest, (with Alix van Sickle) Paper published in the Center for the Study of Democracy research series, December 2005.

The Myth of the Disengaged American, Public Opinion Pros (http://www.publicopinionpros.com/), October 2005; reprinted by the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems.

Authority Orientations and Support for Democracy in East Asia: A Test of the ‘Asian Values' Hypothesis, (with Nhu-Ngoc Ong) Japanese Journal of Political Science (2005).

Public Images of Political Parties: A Necessary Evil?, (with Steven Weldon) West European Politics (November 2005) 28/5: 931-951.

The Greening of the Globe?: Cross-national Levels of Environmental Group Membership, Environmental Politics (August 2005) 14: 441-459.

Is the Party Over? Spreading Antipathy toward Political Parties, (with Steven Weldon) Public Opinion Pros (http://www.publicopinionpros.com/), Spring 2005; reprinted by the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems.

Democracy Transformed? Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial Democracies, (with Bruce Cain and Susan Scarrow) Journal of Democracy (January 2004).

Updated: February 2007