Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC1023: Participating in Politics

This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Dalton, R. (2007) Citizen Politics: Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, Washington DC: CQ Press.

Gallego, A.  (2015) Unequal Political Participation Worldwide, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Meredith, R. (2012) Voter Turnout: A Social Theory of Political Participation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Norris, P. (2002) Democratic Phoenix: Reinventing Political Activism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pattie,C., P. Seyd and P. Whiteley (2004) Citizenship in Britain: Values, Participation and Democracy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Uldam, J and A. Vestergaard (eds) (2015) Civic Engagement and Social Media; Political Participation Beyond the Protest, Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan.

Whiteley, P. (2012) Political Partiicpation in Britain and the Decline and Revival of Civic Culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan.

Zukin, C.  et al (2006) A New Engagement? Political Participation, Civic Life and the Changing American. Oxford: Oxford University Press.