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Overview

Kenneth Newton is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research output spans the social sciences, with a strong focus on political science and related subfields.

Newton's main fields of study include Social Sciences. Subfields covered in their work include:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Communication
  • Public Administration
  • Development

The primary topics they have researched involve:

  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Political Systems and Governance
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Media Influence and Politics

Newton has published several recent papers, including:

  • Government Communications, Political Trust and Compliant Social Behaviour: The Politics of Covid-19 in Britain (2020, The Political Quarterly)
  • Widespread Reach, not much Influence: Online News and Mass Political Attitudes and Behaviour in the UK (2021, The Political Quarterly)
  • Index (2020, Cambridge University Press eBooks)

Among frequent publication venues, Newton has contributed notably to:

  • The Political Quarterly
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks

In the domain of book publications, Newton has authored works under the Cambridge University Press, with two titles listed:

  • Foundations of Comparative Politics (2020)
  • Real News about the News (2024)

Kenneth Newton's collaborative work often involves Jan W. van Deth, with whom they have co-authored 24 publications.

Best Publications

  • Predicting Cross-National Levels of Social Trust: Global Pattern or Nordic Exceptionalism?

    Jan Delhey;Kenneth Newton

  • THREE. Confidence in Public Institutions: Faith, Culture, or Performance?

    Kenneth Newton;Pippa Norris

  • Trust, social capital, civil society, and democracy

    Kenneth Newton

  • Who trusts?: The origins of social trust in seven societies

    Jan Delhey;Kenneth Newton

  • How General Is Trust in “Most People”? Solving the Radius of Trust Problem

    Jan Delhey;Kenneth Newton;Christian Welzel

  • Social Capital and Democracy

    Kenneth Newton

  • Social Trust and Attitudes Toward Democracy

    Sonja Zmerli;Ken Newton

  • Three forms of trust and their association

    Ken Newton;Sonja Zmerli

  • Social capital and democracy in modern Europe

    Kenneth Newton

  • Mass media effects: mobilization or media malaise?

    Kenneth Newton

  • Social and political trust in established democracies

    Kenneth Newton

  • Foundations of Comparative Politics: Democracies of the Modern World

    Kenneth Newton;Jan W. van Deth

  • Beliefs in government

    Max Kaase;Kenneth Newton;Elinor Scarbrough

  • Social and Political Trust

    Kenneth Newton;Dietlind Stolle;Sonja Zmerli

  • Social Capital and European Democracy

    Jan W. van Deth;Marco Maraffi;Kenneth Newton;Paul Whiteley

  • Trust in people, confidence in political institutions, and satisfaction with democracy

    Sonja Zmerli;Kenneth Newton;José Ramon Montéro

  • Political support: social capital, civil society and political and economic performance

    Kenneth Newton

  • The New British Politics

    Ian Budge;David Mckay;Kenneth Newton;John Bartle

  • May the weak force be with you: The power of the mass media in modern politics

    Kenneth Newton

  • Confianza social, confianza política y satisfacción con la democracia

    José Ramón Montero;Sonja Zmerli;Ken Newton

  • The Politics of the New Europe: Atlantic to Urals

    Kenneth Newton;Ian Budge

  • The European Consortium for Political Research

    Kenneth Newton

  • Social capital in Britain

    Kenneth Newton

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan W. van Deth
Jan W. van Deth University of Mannheim
Ian Budge
Ian Budge University of Essex
Klaus Armingeon
Klaus Armingeon University of Zurich
Hans Keman
Hans Keman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
José Ramón Montero
José Ramón Montero Autonomous University of Madrid
Jan-Erik Lane
Jan-Erik Lane University of Geneva
Ivor Crewe
Ivor Crewe University of Oxford
Christian Welzel
Christian Welzel Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck
Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck University of Mannheim
Paul Whiteley
Paul Whiteley University of Essex

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