The Social Logic of Politics: Personal Networks as Contexts for Political BehaviorUsing classic theories and methodologies, this collection maintains that individuals make political choices by taking into account the views, preferences, evaluations, and actions of other people who comprise their social networks. These include family members, friends, neighbors, and workmates, among others. The volume re-establishes the research of the Columbia School of Electoral Sociology from several decades ago, and contrasts it with rational choice theory and the Michigan School of Electoral Analysis. Written by political scientists with a range of interests, this volume returns the social logic of politics to the heart of political science. |
Contents
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Individuals Dyads and Networks Autoregressive Patterns of Political Influence ROBERT HUCKFELDT PAUL E JOHNSON AND JOHN SPRAGUE | 21 |
FAMILIES AS SOURCES OF STRONG POLITICAL TIES | 47 |
Political Similarity and Influence between Husbands and Wives LAURA STOKER AND M KENT JENNINGS | 49 |
Do Couples Support the Same Political parties? Sometimes Evidence from British and German Household Panel Surveys ALAN S ZUCKERMAN JE... | 73 |
Family Ties Understanding the Intergenerational Transmission of Political Participation SIDNEY VERBA KAY LEHMAN SCHLOZMAN AND NAN... | 93 |
FRIENDS WORKMATES NEIGHBORS AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS THE EFFECTS OF WEAK TIES ON ELECTORAL CHOICES AND POLIT... | 113 |
Changing Class Locations and Partisanship in Germany ULRICH KOHLER | 115 |
Putting Voters in Their Places Local Context and Voting in England and Wales 1997 RON J JOHNSTON AND CHARLES J PATTIE | 182 |
Party Identification Local Partisan Contexts and the Acquisition of Participatory Attitudes JAMES G GIMPEL AND CELESTE LAY | 207 |
MacroPolitics and MicroBehavior Mainstream Politics and the Frequency of Political Discussion in Contemporary Democracies CHRISTOPHER J AN... | 226 |
THE SOCIAL LOGIC OF POLITICS Looking Ahead | 247 |
AgentBased Explanations for the Survival of Disagreement in Social Networks PAUL E JOHNSON AND ROBERT HUCKFELDT | 249 |
Turnout in a Small World JAMES H FOWLER | 267 |
Notes | 287 |
References | 305 |
Choosing Alone? The Social Network Basis of Modern Political Choice JEFFEREY LEVINE | 130 |
Friends and Politics Linking Diverse Friendship Networks to Political Participation LAURENCE KOTLERBERKOWITZ | 150 |
Networks Gender and the Use of State Authority Evidence from a Study of Arab Immigrants in Detroit ANN CHIH LIN | 169 |
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Page xv - Happy is the man who has not followed the counsel of the wicked, or taken the path of sinners, or joined the company of the insolent; 2 rather, the teaching of the Lord is his delight, and he studies that teaching day and night.
Page 10 - nonfitting" relations among cognitive elements. 2. The existence of dissonance gives rise to pressures to reduce the dissonance and to avoid increases in dissonance. 3. Manifestations of the operation of these pressures include behavior changes, changes of cognition, and circumspect exposure to new information and new opinions.
Page 9 - Thus where the dependence upon physical reality is low the dependence upon social reality is correspondingly high. An opinion, a belief, an attitude is "correct," "valid," and "proper" to the extent that it is anchored in a group of people with similar beliefs, opinions, and attitudes.
Page 15 - Let us assume a certain man prefers party A for political reasons, but his wife has a tantrum whenever he fails to vote for party B. It is perfectly rational personally for this man to vote for party B if preventing his wife's tantrums is more important to him than having A win instead of B. Nevertheless, in our model such behavior is considered irrational because it employs a political device for a nonpolitical purpose.
Page 10 - In the pages of this book, the term organization refers to the complex pattern of communications and other relations in a group of human beings. This pattern provides to each member of the group much of the information, assumptions, goals, and attitudes that enter into his decisions, and provides him also with a set of stable and comprehensible expectations as to what the other members of the group are doing and how they will react to what he says and does. The sociologist calls this pattern a "role...
Page 6 - I did too." In short, personal influence, with all its overtones of personal affection and loyalty, can bring to the polls votes that would otherwise not be cast or would be cast for the opposing party just as readily if some other friend had insisted. They differ from the formal media by persuading uninterested people to vote in a certain way without giving them a substantive reason for their vote. Fully 25% of those who mentioned a personal contact in connection with change of mind failed to give...
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