Citizens, Context, and Choice
How Context Shapes Citizens' Electoral Choices
Edited by Russell J. Dalton and Christopher J. Anderson
Author Information
Edited by Russell J. Dalton, Professor of Political Science, Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine, and Christopher J. Anderson, Professor of Government and Director of the Institute for European Studies, Cornell University
Russell J. Dalton was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Democracy at UC Irvine. He has received a Fulbright Professorship at the University of Mannheim, a Barbra Streisand Center fellowship, German Marshall Research Fellowship and a POSCO Fellowship at the East/West Center. His scholarly interests include comparative political behavior, political parties, social movements, and empirical democratic theory. He is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.
Christopher J. Anderson is a team member of the Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility theme project organized by Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences and the international collaborative project on Making Electoral Democracy Work funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His research focuses on contextual models of politics that view political actors as nested in a variety of social, economic, and political environments that shape and constrain behavior. In particular, he studies how differences in macro-political contexts across countries shape people's cognition and action. He has long been interested in popular consent and inequality in democracies and has written on the popularity of governments, the legitimacy of political institutions, and the link between welfare states and citizen behavior. He is Professor of Government and Director of the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University.
Contributors:
Christopher J. Anderson teaches at Cornell University where he is Professor of Government and Director of the Cornell Institute for European Studies.
Susan Banducci is Associate Professor of Political Science and department chair at the University of Exeter.
Robin E. Best is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics and Research Methodology at Leiden University (the Netherlands).
André Blais is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal.
Russell J. Dalton is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine and was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Democracy at UC Irvine.
Timothy Hellwig is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University.
Jeffrey Karp is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Exeter.
Miki Caul Kittilson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University.
Michael D. Mcdonald is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center on Democratic Performance at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
G. Bingham Powell, Jr. is Marie C. and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester.
Yuliya V. Tverdova is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.
