Acknowledgments
Part I. Democratic Politics and Social Communication: 1. The multiple levels of democratic politics
2. A research strategy for studying electoral politics
Part II. Electoral Dynamics and Social Communication: 3. The social dynamics of political preference
4. Durability, volatility and social influence
5. Social dynamics in an election campaign
Part III. Networks, Political Discussants, and Social Communication: 6. Political discussion in an election campaign
7. Networks in context: The social flow of political information
8. Choice, social structure, and the informational coercion of minorities
9. Discussant effects on vote choice: Intimacy, structure, and interdependence
10. Gender effects on political discussion: The political networks of men and women
Part IV. The Organizational Locus of Social Communication: 11. One-party politics and the voter revisited: strategic and behavioral bases of partisanship
12. Political parties and electoral mobilization: political structure, social structure, and the party canvass
13. Alternative contexts of political preference
14. Political consequences of interdependent citizens
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