Hard Choices, Easy Answers : : Values, Information, and American Public Opinion /

Hard Choices, Easy Answers : : Values, Information, and American Public Opinion / / John Brehm, R. Michael Alvarez.

Those who seek to accurately gauge public opinion must first ask themselves: Why are certain opinions highly volatile while others are relatively fixed? Why are some surveys affected by question wording or communicative medium (e.g., telephone) while others seem immune? In Hard Choices, Easy Answers...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Alvarez, R. Michael,
Brehm, John,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2002
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 55 line illus. 46 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER 1. A Fickle Public?
  • Part 1. THEORY AND METHODS
  • CHAPTER 2. Predispositions
  • CHAPTER 3. Why Does Political Information Matter?
  • CHAPTER 4. Ambivalence, Uncertainty, and Equivocation
  • Part 2. MASS PUBLIC OPINION
  • CHAPTER 5. Ambivalent Attitudes: Abortion and Euthanasia
  • CHAPTER 6. Uncertainty and Racial Attitudes
  • CHAPTER 7. Equivocation
  • Part 3. MASSES AND ELITES
  • CHAPTER 8. Mass Opinion and Representation
  • CHAPTER 9. Do Elites Experience Ambivalence Where Masses Do Not?
  • CHAPTER 10. Politics, Psychology, and the Survey Response
  • Notes
  • Index

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