First published: Boulder : Westview Press, 1998.

Overview of the book -- I. Introduction -- Post-industrail politics : a framework for interpreting citizen politics since the 1960s -- II. Cultural shifts and politics : is materialism rising, declining, or both? Implications for political activism -- The trend toward postmaterialist values continues -- American youth are becoming more materialistic -- The new political culture in Japan -- III. The new middle class politics : what is special about the politics of professionals and other middle class persons? -- The politics of professionals in five advanced industrial societies -- Partisan alignments of the "old" and "new" middle classes in post-industrial America -- IV. New issues, ideologies, and cleavages : what mobilizes citizens? -- New fiscal populism : innovations in political candidates and campaigns in Illinois, 1956-1992 -- Contemporary ideological cleavages in the United States -- The social origins of feminism and political activism : findings from fourteen countries.