Studies in Public Opinion : : Attitudes, Nonattitudes, Measurement Error, and Change / / ed. by Willem E. Saris, Paul M. Sniderman.

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• MitwirkendeR: Berent, Matthew K.,; Billiet, Jaak,; Bizer, George Y.,; Brewer, Paul R.,; Bullock, John,; Bütschi, Danielle,; Guge, Michael,; Kriesi, Hanspeter,; Krosnick, Jon A.,; Lodge, Milton,; Meffert, Michael F.,; Neijens, Peter,; Saris, Willem E.,; Sniderman, Paul M.,; Steenbergen, Marco R.,; Swyngedouw, Marc,; Theriault, Sean M.,; Visser, Penny S.,; Waege, Hans,; Zaller, John,; van der Veld, William,
• HerausgeberIn: Saris, Willem E.,; Sniderman, Paul M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Contributors --; Introduction --; PART I: A Synoptic Perspective --; CHAPTER 1: Different Judgment Models for Policy Questions: Competing or Complementary? --; CHAPTER 2: Separation of Error, Method Effects, Instability, and Attitude Strength --; PART II: The Problem of Ambivalence --; CHAPTER 3: Good, Bad, and Ambivalent: The Consequences of Multidimensional Political Attitudes --; CHAPTER 4: The Not-So-Ambivalent Public: Policy Attitudes in the Political Culture of Ambivalence --; PART III: Politics and Nonattitudes --; CHAPTER 5: The Structure of Political Argument and the Logic of Issue Framing --; CHAPTER 6: Floating Voters in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1948-2000 --; PART IV: Attitude Strength and Attitude Stability --; CHAPTER 7: Importance, Knowledge, and Accessibility: Exploring the Dimensionality of Strength-Related Attitude Properties --; CHAPTER 8: Stability and Change of Opinion: The Case of Swiss Policy against Pollution Caused by Cars --; CHAPTER 9: Attitude Strength and Response Stability of a Quasi-Balanced Political Alienation Scale in a Panel Study --; PART V: An Alternative to the Standard Opinion Poll --; CHAPTER 10: Coping with the Nonattitudes Phenomenon: A Survey Research Approach --; CHAPTER 11: The Influence of Information on Considered Opinions: The Example of the Choice Questionnaire --; PART VI: Looking Forward --; CHAPTER 12: A Consistency Theory of Public Opinion and Political Choice: The Hypothesis of Menu Dependence --; Index
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• ISBN: 9780691188386; 9783110442502
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691188386?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Willem E. Saris, Paul M. Sniderman.

In democratic societies, opinion polls play a vital role. But it has been demonstrated that many people do not have an opinion about major issues--the "nonattitudes" problem. Also, the framing of questions in different ways can generate very different estimates of public opinion--the "framing" effect. Both dilemmas raise questions about the competence of ordinary citizens to play the role a democratic society ostensibly expects of them. Although the impact of some factors is well established, particularly political information and sophistication, much is yet to be understood. Building on and reaching beyond themes in the work of Philip Converse, one of the pioneers in the study of public opinion, Studies in Public Opinion brings together a group of leading American and European social scientists to explore a number of new factors, with a particular emphasis on the structure of political choices. In twelve chapters that reflect different perspectives on how people form political opinions and how these opinions are manipulated, this book offers an unparalleled view of the state-of-the-art research on these important questions as it has developed on two continents. The contributors include Matthew K. Berent, Jaak Billiet, George Y. Bizer, Paul R. Brewer, John Bullock, Danielle Bütschi, Michael Guge, Hanspeter Kriesi, Jon A. Krosnick, Milton Lodge, Michael F. Meffert, Peter Neijens, Willem E. Saris, Paul M. Sniderman, Marco R. Steenbergen, Marc Swyngedouw, Sean M. Theriault, William van der Veld, Penny S. Visser, Hans Waege, and John Zaller.