Political Support: Social Capital, Civil Society, and Political and Economic Performance (2006)
This paper assesses two main theories of the decline of political support that is found in many western democracies. The first is society-centred and built on the concepts of social capital, trust...
May the weak force be with you: The power of the mass media in modern politics (2006)
The idea that the modern mass media have a strong and malign effect on many aspects of social and political life is widely and strongly held. Television is often said to undermine democratic...
Institutional confidence and social trust: aggregate and individual relations (2006)
Part 1. Introduction 1. Political Disaffection in Comparative Perspective Part 2. Concepts and Dimensions 2. Democracy, Disaffection and Institutions: Some Neo-Tocquevillean Speculations 3. The...
Political support: social capital, civil society and political and economic performance (2006)
This article assesses two main theories of the decline of political support that is found in many western democracies. The first is society centred and built on the concepts of social capital, trust...
Networking among voluntary associations: segmented or integrated? (2006)
Zmerli, Sonja, Newton, Kenneth
This unique book offers an empirical assessment of how social and political involvement relates to theories of citizenship and democracy, providing a detailed comparative assessment of the potential...
Predicting cross-national levels of social trust: Global pattern or nordic exceptionalism? (2005)
This analysis of variations in the level of generalized social trust (defined here as the belief that others will not deliberately or knowingly do us harm, if they can avoid it, and will look after...
Social trust: individual and cross-national approaches (2004)
Social trust is often said to be the essence of social capital. Trusting citizens are good citizens. Theorists argue that voluntary associations are crucial to the association between trust and...
Who trusts? The origins of social trust in seven societies (2003)
his article identifies six main theories of the determinants of social trust, and tests them against survey data from seven societies, 1999-2001. Three of the six theories of trust fare rather poorly...
The national press and voting turnout: British general elections of 1992 and 1997 (2002)
Newton, Kenneth, Brynin, Malcolm
Britain is a good place to test hypotheses about the impact of the mass media on political attitudes and behavior, and this article uses the British Household Panel Survey to investigate the impact...
The national press and party voting in the UK (2001)
Newton, Kenneth, Brynin, Malcolm
The difficulty with resolving the classic problem of whether newspapers influence voting patterns is self-selection: readers select a paper to fit their politics, and newspapers select particular...
La política de la nueva Europa : del Atlántico a los Urales (2001)
Budge, Ian (dir.), Newton, Kenneth (dir.)
Traducción de: The Politics of the New Europe: Atlantic to Urals
Trust, social capital, civil society, and democracy (2001)
The importance of trust has long been emphasised by social and political theorists from Locke and Tocqueville to Putnam and civil society theorists. However, individual survey data casts substantial...
The politics of the new Europe: Atlantic to Urals (2001)
A pioneering textbook which explains the dynamics of politics across Europe in the post-Cold war era. Comparing democratisation, transition to a market economy and increasing economic and political...
La política de la nueva Europa (2001)
Budge, Ian (dir.), Newton, Kenneth (dir.)
Traducción de: The Politics of the New Europe: Atlantic to Urals
Trust, social capital, civil society, and democracy (2001)
The importance of trust has long been emphasised by social and political theorists from Locke and Tocqueville to Putnam and civil society theorists. However, individual survey data casts substantial...
Mass media effects: mobilization or media malaise? (1999)
According to some, the modern mass media have a malign effect on modern democracy, tending to induce political apathy, alienation, cynicism and a loss of social capital – in a word,...
Mass media effects: mobilization or media malaise? (1999)
According to some, the modern mass media have a malign effect on modern democracy, tending to induce political apathy, alienation, cynicism and a loss of social capital – in a word,...
Social capital and European democracy (1999)
Maraffi, Marco, Newton, Kenneth, Deth, Jan Van, Whiteley, Paul
Residential mobility in London: rational choice fairy tale, utopia or reality (1997)
Once upon a time, and a good time it was too, there was a faraway country ruled by a wise economist-king called Tiebout who realized that the way to happiness was to organize local public services in...
Social capital and democracy (1997)
Social capital is in danger of going the way of political culture—a potentially powerful concept that is given many different meanings by many different people for many different purposes. This...
Economic calculus or familiarity breeds content? (1995)
Newton, Kenneth, Bosch, Agusti
This chapter focuses on the extent to which perceptions of economic self-interest affect levels of public support for European Community integration, both at the macro-level and the micro-level. The...
Political Data Handbook. OECD Countries (1992)
Lane, Jan-Erik, McKay, David H., Newton, Kenneth
The purpose of this book is to provide a detailed statistical guide to the government and politics of the 24 OECD countries, together with social and economic background information. The aim is to...
Urban systems theory and urban policy: a four nation comparison (1987)
Aiken, Michael, Newton, Kenneth, Friedland, Roger, Martinotti, Guido
There are few systematically comparative cross-national studies of urban policy or service provision, partly because there is little in the way of empirical testable theory that might guide research...
Voluntary organisations and community politics: Norwegian and British comparisons (1985)
The study reported in this article compares local political activity of voluntary organizations in a Norwegian and an English city — Tromsø and Birmingham. The two cities display rather striking...
Urban systems theory and urban policy and expenditure in England and Wales (1984)
Urban systems theory offers a useful and potentially powerful way of analysing public policy and service expenditures, a research field which, in the past, has lacked in general theory and good...
Arguments about the optimum size for units of local government often overlook the fact that small units have some considerable drawbacks while large ones have some advantages. By and large the...
Role orientations and their sources among elected representatives in English local government (1974)
An aggregate data analysis of turnout and party voting in local elections (1974)
Much has been written about individual voting behaviour in Britain and the United States but relatively little work has been done with aggregate data in the study of total electoral situations. A...
Vita.