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Public Opinion in State Politics.

Since the Reagan presidency, more and more public policymaking authority has devolved to the states. This work is organized around three major themes: the conceptualization and measurement of public opinion in the states; explanations of variation in state public opinion; and the impact of public op...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cohen, Jeffrey E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: studying public opinion in the American states / by Jeffrey E. Cohen
  • Does familiarity breed contempt? examining the correlates of state-level confidence in the federal government / by Paul Brace and Martin Johnson
  • State residency, state laws, and public opinion / by Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox
  • Mexican-American and Cuban-American public opinion: differences at the state level?" / by David L. Leal
  • Public opinion in the states: determinants of legislative job performance / by John A. Hamman
  • The state economy, the national economy, and gubernatorial popularity / by Jeffrey E. Cohen and James D. King
  • Ideological cleavage, political competition, and policy making in the American states / by Charles J. Barrilleaux
  • The civil state: trust, polarization, and the quality of state government / by Eric M. Uslaner
  • Public opinion and policymaking in the culture wars: is there a connection between opinion and state policy on gay and lesbian issues? / by Donald Haider-Markel and Matthew S. Kaufman
  • Citizen influences on state policy priorities: the interplay of public opinion and interest groups / by Saundra K. Schneider and William G. Jacoby
  • State level opinions from national surveys: post-stratification using multilevel logistic regression / David K. Park, Andrew Gelman, and Joseph Bafumi
  • Public opinion in the states: a quarter century of change and stability / by Robert Erikson, Gerald Wright, and John McIver
  • Conclusions: where we have been, where should we go" / by Jeffrey E. Cohen.