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Russell J. Dalton

Professor, Political Science
School of Social Sciences

PH.D., University of Michigan

Phone: (949) 824-6569 824-5938
Fax: (949) 824-8762
Email: rdalton@uci.edu

University of California
5279 Social Science Plaza
Mail Code: 5100
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research
Interests
Politics of Advanced Industrial Democracies, Public Opinion, Political Parties, Political Culture, Democracy
   
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Academic
Distinctions
Fulbright Research Fellow, German Marshall Fund Fellow, POSCO Research Fellow at the East West Center
   
Research
Abstract
Professor Dalton's research focuses on the changing nature of citizen politics in contemporary societies and how theses changes are transforming democratic politics. He has written extensively on the political beliefs of Western publics and the linkage between these beliefs and on-going changes in citizen behavior, partisan politics, and policy outcomes. His has studied the growing impact of the environmental movement in contemporary politics. He is also one of the leading American experts on German politics, especially public opinion in the postwar era. His recent work studies the role of citizens in the development of new democracies. Professor Dalton teaches graduate courses on theories of comparative politics, political culture, and political methodology.
   
Publications The Good Citizen: How a Younger Generation is Reshaping American Politics. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2007.
   
  Citizens, Democracy and Markets around the Pacific Rim: Congruence Theory and Political Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
   
  Democratic Challenges, Democratic Choices: The Erosion of Political Support in Advanced Industrial Democracies. Oxford University Press, 2004.
   
  Democracy Transformed? The Expansion of Citizen Access in Advanced Industrial Democracies, (co-editor and contributor) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
   
  Citizen Politics: Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, 4th ed. CQ Press, 2005.
   
  Parties without Partisans: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies, (co-editor and contributor). Oxford University Press, 2001.
   
  Critical Masses: Citizens, Environmental Destruction, and Nuclear Weapons Production in Russia and the United States (coauthor). MIT Press, 1999.
   
  The Green Rainbow: Environmental Groups in Western Europe. Yale University Press, 1994.
   
  Challenging the Political Order: New Social and Political Movements in Western Democracies, (co-editor and contributor). Oxford University Press, 1990.
   
  Electoral Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies (co-editor and contributor), Princeton University Press, 1984.
   
  Germany Transformed: Political Culture and the New Politics. Harvard University Press, 1981
   
Research Center Center for the Study of Democracy
   
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Last updated 08/21/2007