1 Communication, Consumers, and Citizens: Revisiting the Politics of Consumption
Dhavan V. Shah, Lewis A. Friedland, Chris Wells, Young Mie Kim, and Hernando Rojas
2 The Personalization of Politics: Political Identity, Social Media, and Changing Patterns of Participation
W. Lance Bennett
3 The Politics of Consumer Debt: U.S. State Policy and the Rise of Investment in Consumer Credit, 1920-2008
Louis Hyman
4 Working-Class Cast: Images of the Working Class in Advertising, 1950-2010
Erika L. Paulson and Thomas C. O'Guinn
5 What Does It Mean to Be a Good Citizen? Citizenship Vocabularies as Resources for Action
Kjerstin Thorson
6 Sustainable Citizenship and the New Politics of Consumption
Michele Micheletti and Dietlind Stolle
7 Political Consumerism and New Forms of Political Participation: The Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale in Italy
Paolo R. Graziano and Francesca Forno
8 Gender and Generation in the Social Positioning of Taste
Nam-Jin Lee, Christine L. Garlough, Lewis A. Friedland, and Dhavan V. Shah
9 The Shifting Sands of Citizenship: Toward a Model of the Citizenry in Life Politics
Young Mie Kim
10 Does Changing a Light Bulb Lead to Changing the World? Political Action and the Conscious Consumer
Margaret M. Willis and Juliet B. Schor
11 Buying In to Social Change: How Private Consumption Choices Engender Concern for the Collective
Lucy Atkinson
12 From Concerned Shopper to Dutiful Citizen: Implications of Individual and Collective Orientations toward Political Consumerism
Melissa R. Gotlieb and Chris Wells
13 Examining Overconsumption, Competitive Consumption, and Conscious Consumption from 1994 to 2004:
Disentangling Cohort and Period Effects
D. Jasun Carr, Melissa R. Gotlieb, Nam-Jin Lee, and Dhavan V. Shah
14 Constructing Sustainable Consumption: From Ethical Values to the Cultural Transformation of Unsustainable Markets
Douglas B. Holt
15 The Civic Consequences of "Going Negative": Attack Ads and Adolescents' Knowledge, Consumption, and Participation
Ming Wang, Itay Gabay, and Dhavan V. Shah
16 Between Complacency and Paternalism: Ethical Controversies over Influencing Political and Consumer Choice
Thomas Hove
17 Consuming Ourselves to Dearth: Escalating Inequality and Public Opinion
Lewis A. Friedland, Hernando Rojas, and Leticia Bode
