by Cameron D. Anderson (Editor), Mathieu Turgeon (Editor)
This book presents a comprehensive examination of public opinion in the democratic world.
Built
around chapters that highlight key explanatory frameworks used in
understanding public opinion, the book presents a coherent study of the
subject in a comparative perspective, emphasizing and interrogating
immigration as a key issue of high concern to most mass publics in the
democratic world.
Key features of the book include:
- Covers
several theoretical issues and determinants of opinion such as the
effects of personality, age and life cycle, ideology, social class,
partisanship, gender, religion, ethnicity, language, and media,
highlighting over time the effects of political, social, and economic
contexts.
- Each
chapter explores the theoretical rationale, mechanisms of effect, and
use in the scholarly literature on public opinion before applying these
to the issue of immigration comparatively and in specific places or
regions.
- Widely
comparative using a nine-country sample (Australia, Canada, France,
Germany, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the
United States of America) in the analysis of individual-level
determinants of public opinion about immigration and extending to other
countries like Belgium, Brazil, and Japan when evaluating contextual
factors.
This edited volume will be
essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners interested
in public opinion, political behaviour, voting behaviour, politics of
the media, immigration, political communication, and, more generally,
democracy and comparative politics.
