The Social Logic Of Politics: Personal Networks As Contexts For Political Behavior

✍ Scribed by Alan S. Zuckerman

• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 365
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Using classic theories to explain individuals' political decisions, this volume examines what influences these decisions. Supported by the research of the Columbia school of electoral sociology, this view is contrasted with rational choice theory and the Michigan school of electoral analysis. Written by a range of political scientists, this volume advances theory and method in the study of political behavior and returns the social logic of politics to the heart of political science.

✦ Table of Contents

1592131476......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 10
About the Contributors......Page 22
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 16
INTRODUCTION: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONTEXT......Page 24
1 Returning to the Social Logic of Politics......Page 26
2 Individuals, Dyads, and Networks:Autoregressive Patterns of Political Influence......Page 44
I. FAMILIES AS SOURCES OF STRONG POLITICAL TIES......Page 72
3 Political Similarity and Influence between Husbands and Wives......Page 74
4 Do Couples Support the Same Political Parties? Sometimes: Evidence from British and German Household Panel Surveys......Page 98
5 Family Ties: Understanding the Intergenerational Transmission of Political Participation......Page 118
II. FRIENDS, WORKMATES, NEIGHBORS, AND POLITICALCONTEXTS: THE EFFECTS OF WEAK TIES ON ELECTORAL CHOICESAND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION......Page 138
6 Changing Class Locations and Partisanship in Germany......Page 140
7 Choosing Alone? The Social Network Basis of Modern Political Choice......Page 155
8 Friends and Politics: Linking Diverse Friendship Networks to Political Participation......Page 175
9 Networks, Gender, and the Use of State Authority: Evidence from a Study of Arab Immigrants in Detroit......Page 194
10 Putting Voters in their Places: Local Context and Voting in England and Wales, 1997......Page 207
11 Party Identification, Local Partisan Contexts, and the Acquisition of Participatory Attitudes......Page 232
12 Macro-Politics and Micro-Behavior: Mainstream Politics and the Frequency of Political Discussion inContemporary Democracies......Page 251
III. THE SOCIAL LOGIC OF POLITICS: LOOKING AHEAD......Page 272
13 Agent-Based Explanations for the Survival of Disagreement in Social Networks......Page 274
14 Turnout in a Small World......Page 292
Notes......Page 312
References......Page 330
Index......Page 354