Studies in Public Opinion : : Attitudes, Nonattitudes, Measurement Error, and Change /

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

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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 "...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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