Chargement en cours…

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

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...

Description complète

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteurs principaux: Alvarez, R. Michael (Auteur), Brehm, John (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER 1. A Fickle Public?
  • CHAPTER 2. Predispositions
  • CHAPTER 3. Why Does Political Information Matter?
  • CHAPTER 4. Ambivalence, Uncertainty, and Equivocation
  • CHAPTER 5. Ambivalent Attitudes: Abortion and Euthanasia
  • CHAPTER 6. Uncertainty and Racial Attitudes
  • CHAPTER 7. Equivocation
  • 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