Table of contents for The good citizen : how a younger generation is reshaping American politics / Russell J. Dalton.

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Preface
Chapter 1
Citizenship and the Transformation of Society	1
	The Social Transformation of America	6
	The Plot of this Book	16
	Conclusion	18
DEFINING THE NORMS OF CITIZENSHIP
Chapter 2
The Meaning and Measurement of Citizenship	20
	Citizenship in Theory	21
	What Is a ?Good? Citizen?	24
	The Two Faces of Citizenship	27
	The Distribution of Citizenship Norms	29
	What Kind of Citizenship?	31
Chapter 3
Forming Citizenship Norms	34
	A Generational Gap?	36
	The Rising Tide of Social Status	39
	Patterns by Gender and Ethnicity	41
	Citizenship and Religion	43
	Partisan Differences in Citizenship	45
	Bringing the Pieces Together	48
	The Social Roots of Citizenship	50
THE CONSEQUENCES OF CITIZENSHIP
Chapter 4
Bowling Alone or Protesting with a Group	53
	What Could You Do to Influence the Government?	55
	The Myth of the Disengaged American	58
	Old Repertoires and New Repertoires	67
	Citizenship Norms and Participation	71
	Engaged Democrats	75
Chapter 5
Tolerating Others	80
	How to Measure Political Tolerance	82
	The Unconventional Evidence: Rising Political Tolerance	84
	Who Is Tolerant, and Who Is Not	88
	Citizenship and Tolerance	90
	Citizenship and Tolerance	98
Chapter 6
Is Government the Problem, or the Solution?	101
	What Should Government Do?	102
	We Want Government To Be a Big Spender	104
	Public Policy Preferences	113
	Citizenship and Public Policy	115
Chapter 7
Images of Leviathan	118
	Changing Images of Government	119
	America, Right or Wrong	122
Chapter 8
In Tocqueville?s Footsteps	138
	The Norms of Citizenship	140
	Comparing the Consequences of Citizenship	147
	Citizenship in Comparative Perspective	159
CONCLUSION
Chapter 9
The Two Faces of Citizenship	161
	Rebalancing the American Political Culture	163
	Understanding Generation X	168
 Tocqueville Revisited	171
	Norm Shift and American Democracy	172
Index

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Citizenship -- United States.
Voluntarism -- United States.
Youth -- United States -- Political activity.
Political culture -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-.