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