Kenneth M. Newton

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PhD Political Science University of California, Riverside
Masters Political Science University of California, Riverside
Bachelors Political Science University of California, Riverside

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Predicting Cross-National Levels of Social Trust: Global Pattern or Nordic Exceptionalism? (2005) (1098)
Trust, Social Capital, Civil Society, and Democracy (2001) (1050)
Social Capital and Democracy (1997) (738)
How General Is Trust in “Most People”? Solving the Radius of Trust Problem (2011) (599)
Who trusts?: The origins of social trust in seven societies (2003) (574)
THREE. Confidence in Public Institutions: Faith, Culture, or Performance? (2000) (456)
Social and political trust in established democracies (1999) (403)
Mass Media Effects: Mobilization or Media Malaise? (1999) (377)
Social Trust and Attitudes Toward Democracy (2008) (342)
Confidence in political institutions: faith, culture, or performance? (2000) (338)
Jacques Derrida: ‘Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’ (1997) (283)
Beliefs in Government (1997) (268)
Social Capital and European Democracy (1999) (264)
Social capital in Britain (2004) (251)
Social and Political Trust (2018) (234)
Three forms of trust and their association (2011) (222)
The European Consortium for Political Research (1991) (200)
Trust in people, confidence in political institutions and satisfaction with democracy (2007) (193)
Social capital and democracy in modern Europe (1999) (191)
Evaluating Democratic Innovations : Curing the Democratic Malaise? (2012) (165)
Citizens and the State (1998) (156)
Political Support: Social Capital, Civil Society and Political and Economic Performance (2006) (132)
May the weak force be with you: The power of the mass media in modern politics (2006) (129)
Homi K. Bhabha: ‘The Other Question: The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse’ (1997) (119)
The Politics of Unreason (1972) (107)
Political Data Handbook: OECD Countries (1992) (100)
Social trust: Global pattern or nordic exceptionalism? (2004) (97)
Confidence in Public Institutions (1999) (90)
Who trusts? The origins of social trust in seven nations (2002) (90)
Second city politics: Democratic processes and decision-making in Birmingham (1976) (84)
Twentieth - Century Literary Theory (1988) (72)
Does Politics Matter?: The Determinants of Public Policy (1984) (68)
Twentieth-century literary theory : a reader (1988) (62)
The National Press and Party Voting in the UK (2001) (60)
Fredric Jameson: ‘Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism’ (1997) (57)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Democracies of the Modern World (2005) (56)
The Politics of Local Expenditure (1985) (53)
Social trust: individual and cross-national approaches (2004) (52)
Winners, Losers and Three Types of Trust (2011) (48)
The Transformation of Governance (2001) (47)
Government Communications, Political Trust and Compliant Social Behaviour: The Politics of Covid‐19 in Britain (2020) (45)
Economic calculus or familiarity breeds content (1995) (44)
Patterns of Political and Social Participation in Europe (2007) (40)
Urban Political Economy. (1981) (37)
The National Press and Voting Turnout: British General Elections of 1992 and 1997 (2003) (36)
Objects of political and social trust: scales and hierarchies (2017) (33)
Comparing public policies : new concepts and methods (1979) (32)
Julia Kristeva: ‘The System and the Speaking Subject’ (1997) (32)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: List of figures (2005) (31)
Political Data Handbook (1996) (31)
Elections in central and eastern Europe: the first wave (2000) (30)
American Urban Politics (1975) (29)
The New British Politics (1997) (28)
Metropolitan Governance (2012) (27)
Social trust and political disaffection: social capital and democracy (2002) (25)
Local outputs research: some reflections and proposals (1977) (25)
Role Orientations and their Sources Among Elected Representatives in English Local Politics (1974) (24)
Politics and the news media: mobilisation or videomalaise? (1997) (24)
The Politics of the New Europe: Atlantic to Urals (1997) (23)
Roland Barthes: ‘The Death of the Author’ (1997) (22)
George Eliot, Judaism and the novels (2002) (22)
Interpreting the Text: A Critical Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Literary Interpretation (1990) (20)
Support for democracy: Social capital, civil society and political performance (2005) (19)
The sociology of British Communism (1972) (18)
The Radius of Trust Problem Remains Resolved (2014) (18)
Patterns of Participation: Political and Social Participation in 22 Nations (2008) (17)
Networking among voluntary associations: segmented or integrated? (2006) (17)
Introduction: political science in Western Europe, 1960-1990 (1991) (17)
Centralisation and decentralisation: changing patterns of intergovernmental relations in advanced western societies ‐an introduction by the editors (1988) (16)
What people expect from the state: plus ça change (1998) (16)
Caring and competence: the long, long campaign (1993) (16)
George Eliot: Romantic Humanist: A Study of the Philosophical Structure of her Novels (1981) (15)
Wolfgang Iser: ‘Indeterminacy and the Reader’s Response’ (1997) (15)
Government and private censorship in nine Western democracies in the 1970s and 1980s (1994) (15)
Do people read everything they believe in the papers?: Newspapers and voters in the 1983 and 1987 elections (1991) (14)
Central-local government relations: the irresistible rise of centralised power (1983) (14)
Kenneth Burke: Literature and Language as Symbolic Action (1988) (14)
Josephine Donovan: ‘Beyond the Net: Feminist Criticism as A Moral Criticism’ (1997) (13)
Taxing and spending: tax revolt or tax protest? (1995) (13)
Dynamics of the metropolitan economy (1992) (13)
Balancing the Books: Financial Problems of Local Government in West Europe (1980) (13)
Mayors in Action: 5 Approaches to Urban Governance (1976) (12)
Turnout and Marginality in Local Elections (1972) (12)
Community action and race relations : a study of community relations committees in Britain (1972) (11)
Institutional confidence and social trust: aggregate and individual relations (2006) (11)
The new British politics. 3rd edition (2003) (10)
Residential Mobility in London: Rational Choice Fairy Tale, Utopia or Reality (1997) (10)
Fredric Jameson: ‘On Interpretation: Literature as A Socially Symbolic Act’ (1997) (10)
Patterns of political and social participation (2007) (9)
Urban Systems Theory and Urban Policy: A Four-Nation Comparison (1987) (9)
Political trust and the mass media (2017) (9)
Local government abroad (1986) (9)
Central government grants, territorial justice and local democracy in post-war Britain (1980) (9)
George Eliot, romantic humanist (1981) (9)
Trust and Political Disenchantment: An Overview (2015) (8)
The Revolution of Rising Expectations (1985) (8)
George Eliot and the Ethical (2013) (8)
Elaine Showalter: ‘Towards a Feminist Poetics’ (1997) (8)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Welfare (2005) (8)
A Look at the Beliefs in Government Study (1996) (8)
Foundations of Political Sociology (1973) (8)
Paul Ricoeur: ‘The Conflict of Interpretations’ (1997) (7)
Profile of a local political elite: businessmen as community decision-makers in Birmingham, 1838-1966’ (1970) (7)
Economic voting in the 1992 general election (1993) (6)
Voluntary organisations and community politics: Norwegian and British comparisons (1985) (6)
The Social Patterns of Immigrant Areas (1972) (6)
Theory into practice : a reader in modern literary criticism (1992) (5)
Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels: ‘Against Theory’ (1997) (5)
Politics, economics, class, and taxation (1995) (5)
Public Service and Commercial Broadcasting: Impacts on Politics and Society (2016) (5)
Politics, Personality and Social Science in the Twentieth Century: Essays in Honour of Harold D. Lasswell (1970) (5)
The local financial crisis in Britain: A non-crisis which is neither local nor financial (1981) (5)
The welfare state backlash and the tax revolt (1998) (5)
Community decision-makers and community decision-making in England and the United States (1970) (5)
George Eliot, Judaism And The Novels: Jewish Myth and Mysticism (2002) (5)
Louis A. Montrose: ‘Professing the Renaissance: the Poetics and Politics of Culture’ (1997) (4)
George Eliot for the Twenty-First Century: Literature, Philosophy, Politics (2018) (4)
Voluntary Organizations in a British City: the Political and Organizational Characteristics of 4,264 Voluntary Associations in Birmingham (1975) (4)
The mass media and modern government (1996) (4)
The Communist Parties of Western Europe (1976) (4)
George Eliot and Racism: How Should One Read 'the modern hep! hep! hep!'? (2008) (4)
Terry Eagleton: ‘Towards A Science of The Text’ (1997) (4)
Links between leaders and citizens in a local political system (1973) (4)
Evaluating the quality of society and public services (2010) (4)
The mass media: fourth estate or fifth column? (1995) (3)
Marginal Wards and Social Class (1971) (3)
Versagt politisches Marketing (2000) (3)
Roman Jakobson: ‘Linguistics and Poetics’ (1997) (3)
Gender and Race (1992) (3)
Public services in cities and counties (1984) (3)
Historical prototypes in middlemarch (1975) (3)
Jonathan Culler: ‘Semiotics as a Theory of Reading’ (1997) (3)
The transformation of government (2001) (3)
Hans Robert Jauss: ‘Literary History as A Challenge to Literary Theory’ (1997) (3)
British Interest Group Theory Reexamined: The Politics of Four Thousand Voluntary Organizations in a British City (1975) (3)
Democracy, community power and non-decisionmaking (1972) (3)
HERMENEUTICS AND MODERN LITERARY CRITICISM (1989) (3)
Why local budgets grow (1985) (3)
Literary Theory and the Rushdie Affair (1992) (2)
Byronic egoism and George Eliot'sThe Spanish Gypsy (1973) (2)
Distributional Issues and the Future of the Welfare State (1990) (2)
Community Politics: A Behavioural Approach (1972) (2)
Jan Mukařovský: ‘Aesthetic Function, Norm, and Value as Social Facts’ (1997) (2)
Hans-Georg Gadamer: ‘Language as Determination of The Hermeneutic Object’ (1997) (2)
Walter Benjamin: ‘The Author as Producer’ (1997) (2)
CENTRAL-LOCAL GOVERNMENT RELATIONS: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY OF THE ESRC RESEARCH INITIATIVE (1986) (2)
The death of the industrial city and the urban fiscal crisis (1986) (2)
John M. Ellis: ‘The Relevant Context of A Literary Text’ (1997) (2)
Urban System Theory, and Urban Policy and Expenditures in England and Wales* (1984) (2)
Reception Theory and Reader-Response Criticism (1988) (2)
Paul De Man: ‘The Resistance to Theory’ (1997) (2)
George Eliot and Jacques Derrida: an elective affinity1 (2009) (2)
Yury M. Lotman: ‘The Content and Structure of the Concept of “Literature”’ (1997) (2)
Democratic crisis, contradiction and catastrophe: West European democracies, 1945-1990 (1995) (2)
Knee-Capping Local Government (1985) (1)
George Eliot, Kant, and Free Will (2012) (1)
Support for democracy (2014) (1)
Roman Jakobson: ‘The Dominant’ (1997) (1)
Democratic pathologies and democratic hypochrondia (1994) (1)
Multi-level government: international, national and sub-national (2005) (1)
George Eliot and the Bushmen (2008) (1)
Political Research in Eastern Europe: Proceedings of the Second Conference in Berlin, November 26th-28th, 1993 (1994) (1)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Decision making (2009) (1)
Winning, Losing, and Luck in the Ethics and Politics of Daniel Deronda (2009) (1)
In Defence of Literary Interpretation: Theory and Practice (1986) (1)
Widespread Reach, not much Influence: Online News and Mass Political Attitudes and Behaviour in the UK (2021) (1)
The Economic Basis of Attitudes towards the European Community: Familiarity Breeds Content. Institute for Advanced Studies Political Science Series, 12 April 1994 (1994) (1)
Making the news: the mass media in Britain (1990) (1)
Glossary of key terms (2005) (1)
Federal Republic of Germany1 (1996) (1)
Parties, parliaments and governments (2014) (1)
George Eliot As Proto-Modernist (1998) (1)
Thomas Hardy in Context: Tragedy and the Novel (2013) (1)
Pressure groups and social movements (2005) (1)
City politics in Britain and America (1968) (1)
Rateable values, personal incomes, and taxable capacity: some problems with a Layfield proposal (1977) (1)
Victor Shklovsky: ‘Art as Technique’ (1997) (1)
The Mass Media and Political Trust in Europe: Testing the Rainmaker Effect (2015) (1)
P. N. Medvedev/M. M. Bakhtin: ‘The Object, Tasks, and Methods of Literary History’ (1997) (1)
The New Criticism and Leavisite Criticism (1992) (1)
The wit and humor of political science (2010) (1)
Interest, Authority and Ideology in Literary Interpretation (1982) (1)
Theory into Practice (1992) (1)
Policies and Performance (2020) (1)
‘American Democracy Reconsidered’ - Some Comments (1975) (1)
The impact of rates on local elections (1976) (1)
Interpreting Tolstoy’s Intention in Anna Karenina (1986) (1)
Raymond Williams: ‘Dominant, Residual, and Emergent’ (1997) (1)
A Crisis of Democracy (1998) (1)
William McIlvanney's Docherty: Last of the Old or Precursor of the New? (2001) (1)
Supervising during a disaster. (1981) (1)
Russian Formalism and Prague Structuralism (1988) (1)
Linda Hutcheon: ‘Theorizing the Postmodern’ (1997) (1)
VALIDITY IN INTERPRETATION AND THE LITERARY INSTITUTION (1985) (1)
Handbook of west European political science (1995) (1)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Political attitudes and behaviour (2005) (1)
Quite a Good Time to Be Born: A Memoir 1935–1975 by David Lodge (review) (2016) (1)
The Relationship between Creator and Creature (2002) (1)
Kenneth Burke: ‘Formalist Criticism: Its Principles and Limits’ (1997) (1)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Citizens, elites and interest mediation (2009) (0)
Regions and localities: power-sharing with the periphery (2014) (0)
Introduction: Jewish Myth, Mysticism and George Eliot’s Fiction (2002) (0)
CRITICAL OPINION:Sutherland's Puzzles: The Case of Daniel Deronda (1998) (0)
Political Parties and Elections (1996) (0)
States, territories and ethnonationalism Variations on one, or two, themes? (2014) (0)
Surprising News: How the Media Affect—and Do Not Affect—Politics (2019) (0)
The death of the city and the urban fiscal crisis (1988) (0)
Cleanth Brooks: ‘The Formalist Critic’ (1997) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Democratic change and persistence (2009) (0)
The European states (2014) (0)
Science, Pseudo-Science and Transgression (2002) (0)
Course Title : The Mass Media, Politics, and War (2008) (0)
Review of George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels (2002) (0)
The Media and Modern Democracy (2001) (0)
Anthony Trollope: Life and Career (1987) (0)
Political ideologies: conservatism, liberalism, Christian democracy and socialism (2005) (0)
Implementation: The Public Bureaucracy (2005) (0)
Security and peace (2014) (0)
Mass media and political trust in Europe: Testing for ‘rainmaker’ effects (2015) (0)
Big Books About Small Mercies (1975) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Glossary of key terms (2005) (0)
Marxism, Postmodernism, and Knowledge (1985) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: The development of the modern state (2005) (0)
The New Criticism (1988) (0)
Review of Modernizing George Eliot: The miter as Artist, Intellectual, Proto-Modernist, Cultural Critic (2012) (0)
Local elites in England and Wales (1979) (0)
Eliot and the Reinterpretation of the Ethical (2018) (0)
Neutrality and the media (2018) (0)
Revisions of Scott, Austen, and Dickens in Daniel Deronda (2005) (0)
John Casey: ‘Object, Feeling and Judgement: F. R. Leavis’ (1997) (0)
E. D. Hirsch, Jr: ‘Three Dimensions of Hermeneutics’ (1997) (0)
Urban theories and urban concepts (1982) (0)
George Eliot and Kabbalism: Historical and Literary Context (2002) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Key terms and concepts (2009) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Policy making and legislating: executives and legislatures (2005) (0)
Centralisation and decentralisation in Western Europe in the special issue of European Journal of Political Research (1988) (0)
Memory and The Mill on the Floss (1981) (0)
List of controversies (2009) (0)
Rosalind Coward and John Ellis: ‘S/Z’ (1997) (0)
Egotism and Sublimation (1981) (0)
It’s Not the Media, Stupid (2019) (0)
Post-Althusserian Marxism (1988) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Voters and elections (2009) (0)
Shoshana Felman: ‘The Madness of Interpretation: Literature and Psychoanalysis’ (1997) (0)
Editors' Introduction Urban Policy Studies: Prospects For Convergence (1977) (0)
Introduction: A Brief Reflection on George Eliot Past, Present and Future (2018) (0)
Left-Wing Theories: The Fiscal Crisis of the State (1985) (0)
Romola and Nihilism (1981) (0)
The mass media and politics (1997) (0)
Political Attitudes and Political Behaviour (1998) (0)
The Social Composition of a City Council: Birmingham 1925–1966 (1971) (0)
The Tale of a Comparative Political Science Project (1998) (0)
P. D. Juhl: ‘The Appeal to the Text: What Are We Appealing to?’ (1997) (0)
The mass media (2005) (0)
Ideology and the Humanist Interpretation of Shakespeare (1986) (0)
Introduction: George Eliot and Romantic Thinking (1981) (0)
Theories of Crisis and Catastrophe, Change and Transformation (1998) (0)
Alan Sinfield: ‘Reading Dissidence’ (1997) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: States and democracy (2009) (0)
Harold Bloom: ‘Poetry, Revisionism, and Repression’ (1997) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: The mass media (2005) (0)
From Formless Matter to Matter with Form (2002) (0)
Roger Fowler: ‘Literature as Discourse’ (1997) (0)
William V. Spanos: ‘Breaking the Circle: Hermeneutics as Dis-Closure’ (1997) (0)
The Polity: Structures and Institutions (2005) (0)
Research note. British interest group theory re-examined: the politics of four thousand voluntary organizations in a British city (1975) (0)
Michel Foucault: ‘Lecture: 7 January 1976’ (1997) (0)
Minorities and migrants: European dilemmas (2014) (0)
Feeble government and private powers (1976) (0)
Gérard Genette: ‘Structuralism and Literary Criticism’ (1997) (0)
Specimen Passage and Commentary (1987) (0)
Is Literary Interpretation Defensible (1986) (0)
Investing Form with Essence (2002) (0)
Inescapable Timeless Issues (1993) (0)
And another thing: civil societies: social capital in Britain (2006) (0)
Summaries and Critical Commentary (1987) (0)
Facilities and resources for political scientists (1981) (0)
Liberal neutrality and the news media (1989) (0)
F. R. Leavis: ‘Literary Criticism and Philosophy’ (1997) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Pressure groups and social movements (2005) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: The future of the democratic state (2005) (0)
David Bleich: ‘The Subjective Character of Critical Interpretation’ (1997) (0)
Stanley Fish: ‘Consequences’ (1997) (0)
How to use this book (2009) (0)
Stanley Fish: ‘Interpreting the Variorum’ (1997) (0)
Roland Barthes: ‘Science Versus Literature’ (1997) (0)
George Eliot, Scientific Materialism and Literary Form: Some Relfections on Felicia Bonaparte's Will and Destiny (2013) (0)
Homelessness and Speechlessness (2002) (0)
In defence of literary interpretation (1986) (0)
Right-Wing Arguments: Local Government as a Parasite (1985) (0)
The Politics of Local Spending (1985) (0)
Conflict suppression and conflict avoidance (1978) (0)
Urban government and public services (1982) (0)
The Organic Society (1981) (0)
The Future of the Democratic State (2020) (0)
Tolstoy's Intention in Anna Karenina (1983) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Policies and performance (2005) (0)
Shaw and Tragedy (1986) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: The polity: structures and institutions (2005) (0)
Review: Delivering Public Services in Western Europe: Sharing Western European Experience of Para-Government Organization, Urban Government in the 1990s: Lessons from the USA, Housing and the National Economy, European Political Cooperation: Towards a Framework of Supranational Diplomacy? (1990) (0)
The Return of the Tragic in Fiction (2008) (0)
The ‘Radical’ Mindset of George Eliot (2018) (0)
The Messianic Potential (2002) (0)
The State: Origins and Development (2005) (0)
Allegory in Trollope's The Warden (2004) (0)
Christopher Caudwell: ‘English Poets: The Decline of Capitalism’ (1997) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Postscript: How and what to compare? (2009) (0)
Eliot as Psychological Novelist (2018) (0)
Agenda setting, gatekeeping and policy output studies (1987) (0)
Formalism, Dialogism, Structuralism (1992) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: The democratic state (2005) (0)
George Eliot and Romanticism : Romantic Elements in George Eliot's Thought andtheir Relation to the Structure of her Novels (1972) (0)
Poststructuralism and the Question of Interpretation (1989) (0)
Ideals of Perfection (2002) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Party government (2005) (0)
The old politics of parties (2014) (0)
Georg Lukács: ‘Critical Realism and Socialist Realism’ (1997) (0)
Presidential and Parliamentary Government (2005) (0)
Edward W. Said: ‘Overlapping Territories, Intertwined Histories’ (1997) (0)
Kabbalistic Philosophy and the Novels (2002) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Defence and security (2000) (0)
Building the institutional framework: electoral systems, party systems and presidents (2014) (0)
Political Theory and Central-Local Relations (1985) (0)
The Growth and Decline of the State (1998) (0)
Eliot and the Politics of Modernism (2018) (0)
I. A. Richards: ‘Poetry and Beliefs’ (1997) (0)
The Mill on the Floss and the Revision of Tragedy (2018) (0)
Elizabeth A. Meese: ‘Sexual Politics and Critical Judgment’ (1997) (0)
‘Victorian Values’ and Silas Marner (1998) (0)
The Birth of Theater from the Spirit of Philosophy: Nietzsche and the Modern Drama by David Kornhaber (review) (2017) (0)
Morse Peckham: ‘The Problem of Interpretation’ (1997) (0)
Themes and Issues (1987) (0)
The reasons why cities are ugly and sad (foreword) (1983) (0)
Politics and History (1992) (0)
Conflict and Dialectic in the Interpretation of Great Expectations (1986) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics (2020) (0)
Reshaping the welfare state (2014) (0)
The social and political patterns of immigrant areas (1972) (0)
Critical Encounters: Hardy, Bonaparte, Miller (2018) (0)
Daniel Deronda and the Novel of the Future (2018) (0)
Conclusion: Social Critique, Education, Allegory (2002) (0)
Local Spending in Context (1985) (0)
Narration in Middlemarch Revisited (2011) (0)
La Grande Bretagne (1984) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Constitutions (2009) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Presidential and parliamentary government (2005) (0)
Foundations of Comparative Politics: Political ideologies: conservatism, liberalism, Christian democracy and socialism (2005) (0)
Notes and comment. Marginal wards and social class (1971) (0)
The Squeeze on Income (1985) (0)
Social Capital (2019) (0)

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