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Prof. Iyengar:
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Prof. Coleman:
Coleman, S. and Shane, P. (eds) (2011) Connecting Democracy: Online Consultation and the Flow of Political Communication, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press - chapters 2 (Coleman and Price) and 8 (Coleman, Gibson and Schneeberger)

Coleman, S. and Moss, G. (2012) 'Under Construction: The Field of Online Deliberation Research', Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 9(1):1-15

Bachtiger, A. et al (2010) 'Toward More Realistic Models of Deliberative Democracy Disentangling Diversity in Deliberative Democracy: Competing Theories, Their Blind Spots and Complementarities', Journal of Political Philosophy: 18(1):32–63

Kelly, J. et al (2005) 'Debate, Division and Diversity: Political Discourse Networks in USENET Newsgroups': http://www.coi.columbia.edu/pdf/kelly_fisher_smith_ddd.pdf

Graham, T. & Harju, A. (2011)  'Reality TV as a trigger of everyday political talk in the net-based public sphere'. European Journal of Communication, 26:18):

Luskin, R. and Fishkin, (2004) 'Considered Opinions on U.S. Foreign Policy: Face-to-Face versus Online Deliberative Polling': http://cdd.stanford.edu/research/papers/2004/online-fp.pdf

Coleman, S. & Blumler, J. G. 2009. The Internet and democratic citizenship : theory, practice and policy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, espectally the Introduction and chapters 4, 5 and 7.

Prof. Brants:
John Street (2003) ‘The Celebrity Politician: Political Style and Popular Culture’, in: John Corner & Dick Pels (eds) Media and the Restyling of Politics (pp. 85-99). London: Sage

Kees Brants (2004) Political Communication in the Age of Big Brother. Infotainment between Hate and Hope. At (Originally published in German as “Politische Kommunikation im Zeitalter von Big Brother”, in: Jörg-Uwe Nieland & Klaus Kamps (Hrsg) Politikdarstellung und Unterhaltungskultur. Zum Wandel der Politischen Kommunikation (pp. 93-116). Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2004).

Liesbet van Zoonen, Stephen Coleman & Anke Kuik (2011) ‘The Elephant Trap: Politicians Performing in Television Comedy’, in: Kees Brants & Katrin Voltmer (eds) Political Communication in Postmodern Democracy. Challenging the Primacy of Politics (pp. 146-167). Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Prof. Thomassen: 
Jacques Thomassen (ed.), The European Voter , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Introductory chapter: pp. 1-21.
 
Hans-Dieter Klingemann (ed.), The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, OUP, 2009, pp. 1-36 (until 'CSES in comparative perspective').
 
Aarts, K. and J. Thomassen, Satisfaction with Democracy: Do Institutions Matter? Electoral Studies, 2008.27(1): p. 5-18.


Prof. Dalton:

Clarke, HD, M. Stewart (1998), The Decline of Parties in the Minds of Citizens, Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. 1:357-78 Download the file

Dalton, R. (2012), Dealignment in Comparative Perspective", in R. Dalton, The Apartisan American: Dealignment and Changing Electoral Politics, CQPress (Ch 09, pp. 151-179) Download the file

Dalton, R, I. McAllister, M. Wattenberg (2002), "The Consequences of Partisan Dealignment", in R. Dalton and M. Wattenberg, Parties Without
Partisans: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies, Oxford University Press (Ch 3, pp. 37-63)

Prof. Knutsen:
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