Public Opinion In State Politics

Author : Jeffrey E. Cohen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804767971

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Public Opinion in State Politics by Jeffrey E. Cohen Pdf

Since the Reagan presidency, more and more public policymaking authority has devolved to the states, a trend that the contributors to this volume argue is unlikely to abate soon. Public Opinion in State Politics is an innovative collection of recent research developed in response to signs of this growing importance of state politics. It updates and expands the previous work on public opinion and state politics, taking into account new data and methods, and drawing comparisons across states. The book 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 opinion on state politics and policy.

Author : Walter Lippmann
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547389743

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Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann Pdf

The book "Public Opinion" is a critical assessment of functional democratic government, especially of the irrational and often self-serving social perceptions that influence individual behavior and prevent optimal societal cohesion. The detailed descriptions of the cognitive limitations people face in comprehending their socio-political and cultural environments leading them to apply an evolving catalogue of general stereotypes to a complex reality, rendered Public Opinion a seminal text in the fields of media studies, political science, and social psychology. Walter Lippmann was an American writer, reporter, and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War, coining the term "stereotype" in the modern psychological meaning, and critiquing media and democracy in his newspaper column and several books.

Author : Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Political science
ISBN : UOMDLP:1748379:0001.001

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Public Opinion and Popular Government by Abbott Lawrence Lowell Pdf

Author : Glen Krutz,Sylvie Waskiewicz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1738998479

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American Government 3e by Glen Krutz,Sylvie Waskiewicz Pdf

Black & white print. American Government 3e aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students while maintaining the conceptual coverage and rigor inherent in the subject. With this objective in mind, the content of this textbook has been developed and arranged to provide a logical progression from the fundamental principles of institutional design at the founding, to avenues of political participation, to thorough coverage of the political structures that constitute American government. The book builds upon what students have already learned and emphasizes connections between topics as well as between theory and applications. The goal of each section is to enable students not just to recognize concepts, but to work with them in ways that will be useful in later courses, future careers, and as engaged citizens. In order to help students understand the ways that government, society, and individuals interconnect, the revision includes more examples and details regarding the lived experiences of diverse groups and communities within the United States. The authors and reviewers sought to strike a balance between confronting the negative and harmful elements of American government, history, and current events, while demonstrating progress in overcoming them. In doing so, the approach seeks to provide instructors with ample opportunities to open discussions, extend and update concepts, and drive deeper engagement.

Author : Robert S. Erikson,Gerald C. Wright,John P. McIver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521424054

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Statehouse Democracy by Robert S. Erikson,Gerald C. Wright,John P. McIver Pdf

The authors demonstrate that state policies are highly responsive to public opinion through the analysis of state policies from the 1930s to the present.

Author : Siddharth Swaminathan,Suhas Palshikar
Publisher : Routledge Chapman & Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367648857

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Politics and Society Between Elections by Siddharth Swaminathan,Suhas Palshikar Pdf

This book studies patterns in public opinion on politics and society between elections in India. By using the survey data covering 24 Indian states including the National Capital Region of Delhi (NCR), it will serve as State barometers of public opinion.

Author : John Zaller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521407869

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The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion by John Zaller Pdf

This 1992 book explains how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences.

Author : Vincent L. Hutchings
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691225661

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Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability by Vincent L. Hutchings Pdf

Much of public opinion research over the past several decades suggests that the American voters are woefully uninformed about politics and thus unable to fulfill their democratic obligations. Arguing that this perception is faulty, Vincent Hutchings shows that, under the right political conditions, voters are surprisingly well informed on the issues that they care about and use their knowledge to hold politicians accountable. Though Hutchings is not the first political scientist to contend that the American public is more politically engaged than it is often given credit for, previous scholarship--which has typically examined individual and environmental factors in isolation--has produced only limited evidence of an attentive electorate. Analyzing broad survey data as well as the content of numerous Senate and gubernatorial campaigns involving such issues as race, labor, abortion, and defense, Hutchings demonstrates that voters are politically engaged when politicians and the media discuss the issues that the voters perceive as important. Hutchings finds that the media--while far from ideal--do provide the populace with information regarding the responsiveness of elected representatives and that groups of voters do monitor this information when "their" issues receive attention. Thus, while the electorate may be generally uninformed about and uninterested in public policy, a complex interaction of individual motivation, group identification, and political circumstance leads citizens concerned about particular issues to obtain knowledge about their political leaders and use that information at the ballot box.

Author : Robert Y. Shapiro,Lawrence R. Jacobs
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199673025

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The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media by Robert Y. Shapiro,Lawrence R. Jacobs Pdf

With engaging new contributions from the major figures in the fields of the media and public opinion The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media is a key point of reference for anyone working in American politics today.

Author : James Stimson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429974427

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Public Opinion In America by James Stimson Pdf

Public opinion matters. It registers itself on the public consciousness, translates into politics and policy, and impels politicians to run for office and, once elected, to serve in particular ways.This is a book about opinion?not opinions. James Stimson takes the incremental, vacillating, time-trapped data points of public opinion surveys and transforms them into a conceptualization of public mood swings that can be measured and used to predict change, not just to describe it. To do so, he reaches far back in U.S. survey research and compiles the data in such a way as to allow the minutiae of attitudes toward abortion, gun control, and housing to dissolve into a portrait of national mood and change.Using sophisticated techniques of coding, statistics, and data equalization, the author has amassed an unrivaled database from which to extrapolate his findings. The results go a long way toward calibrating the folklore of political eras, and the cyclical patterns that emerge show not only the regulatory impulse of the 1960s and 1970s and the swing away from it in the 1980s; the cycles also show that we are in the midst of another major mood swing right now?what the author calls the ?unnoticed liberalism? of current American politics.Concise, suggestive, and eminently readable, Public Opinion in America is ideal for courses on public opinion, public policy, and methods, as well as for introductory courses in American government. Examples and illustrations abound, and appendixes document the measurement of policy mood from survey research marginals. This revised second edition includes updated data on public opinion and voters through the 1996 presidential election.

Author : Russell J. Dalton
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781544351964

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Citizen Politics by Russell J. Dalton Pdf

"The book’s combined focus on parties as institutions and systems, alongside political attitudes and behaviors, is why I use it...I have yet to find another text that accomplishes this." —Meredith Conroy, California State University, San Bernardino Now, more than ever, people drive the democratic process. What people think of their government and its leaders, how (or whether) they vote, and what they do or say about a host of political issues greatly affect the further strengthening or erosion of democracy and democratic ideals. This fully updated, shorter Seventh Edition of Citizen Politics continues to offer the only truly comparative study of political attitudes and behavior in the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany. In addition to its comprehensive, thematic examination of political values, political activity, voting, and public images of government within a cross-national context, the updated edition of this bestseller explores how cultural issues, populism, Trump and far right parties are reshaping politics in contemporary democracies. All chapters have been updated with the latest research and empirical evidence. Further, Dalton includes recent research on citizens’ political behavior in USA, Britain, France, and Germany, as well as new evidence from national election studies in USA 2016, Britain 2017, France 2017, and Germany 2017.

Author : Russell J. Dalton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-14
Category : Comparative government
ISBN : 154437173X

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Citizen Politics - International Student Edition by Russell J. Dalton Pdf

This book is a comprehensive, thematic examination of political values, political activity, voting, and public images of government within a cross-national context. The updated edition of this bestseller also explores how cultural issues, populism, Trump and far right parties are reshaping politics in contemporary democracies.

Author : Lawrence R. Jacobs,Robert Y. Shapiro
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226389839

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Politicians Don't Pander by Lawrence R. Jacobs,Robert Y. Shapiro Pdf

In this provocative and engagingly written book, the authors argue that politicians seldom tailor their policy decisions to "pander" to public opinion. In fact, they say that when not facing election, contemporary presidents and members of Congress routinely ignore the public's preferences and follow their own political philosophies. 37 graphs.

Author : Cameron D. Anderson,Mathieu Turgeon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000600506

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Comparative Public Opinion by Cameron D. Anderson,Mathieu Turgeon Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive examination of public opinion in the democratic world. Built around chapters that highlight key explanatory frameworks used in understanding public opinion, the book presents a coherent study of the subject in a comparative perspective, emphasizing and interrogating immigration as a key issue of high concern to most mass publics in the democratic world. Key features of the book include: Covers several theoretical issues and determinants of opinion such as the effects of personality, age and life cycle, ideology, social class, partisanship, gender, religion, ethnicity, language, and media, highlighting over time the effects of political, social, and economic contexts. Each chapter explores the theoretical rationale, mechanisms of effect, and use in the scholarly literature on public opinion before applying these to the issue of immigration comparatively and in specific places or regions. Widely comparative using a nine-country sample (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America) in the analysis of individual-level determinants of public opinion about immigration and extending to other countries like Belgium, Brazil, and Japan when evaluating contextual factors. This edited volume will be essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in public opinion, political behaviour, voting behaviour, politics of the media, immigration, political communication, and, more generally, democracy and comparative politics.

Author : Thomas Knecht
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271056685

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Paying Attention to Foreign Affairs by Thomas Knecht Pdf

Do American presidents consider public opinion when making foreign policy decisions? In a democracy, it is generally assumed that citizen preferences inform public policy. For a variety of reasons, however, foreign policy has always posed a difficult challenge for democratic governance. In Paying Attention to Foreign Affairs, Thomas Knecht offers new insights into the relationship between public opinion and U.S. foreign policy. He does so by shifting our focus away from the opinions that Americans hold and toward the issues that grab the public’s attention. Policy making under the glare of public scrutiny differs from policy making when no one is looking. As public interest in foreign policy increases, the political stakes also rise. A highly attentive public can then force presidents to choose foreign policies that are less politically risky but usually less effective. By tracking the ebb and flow of public attention to foreign policy, this book offers a method of predicting when presidents are likely to lead, follow, or simply ignore the American public.