The rational public : fifty years of trends in Americans' policy preferences /

This monumental study is a comprehensive critical survey of the policy preferences of the American public, and will be the definitive work on American public opinion for some time to come. Drawing on an enormous body of public opinion data, Benjamin I. Page and Robert Y. Shapiro provide the richest...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Page, Benjamin I.
Other Authors: Shapiro, Robert Y., 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1992.
Series:American politics and political economy.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Geschichte 1939-1990.
Public opinion > United States > History > 20th century.
Opinion publique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Public opinion
Politik
Öffentliche Meinung
Trend
Publieke opinie.
Kiesgedrag.
United States
USA
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History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Rational public opinion
  • The myth of capricious change
  • Opinions about social issues
  • Economic welfare
  • Foreign policy: World War II and the Cold War / coauthored by John M. Gillroy
  • Vietnam, Detente, and the New Cold War / coauthored by John M. Gillroy
  • Parallel publics
  • The causes of collective opinion change
  • Education and manipulation of public opinion
  • Democracy, information, and the rational public.

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