Title Studies in public opinion : attitudes, nonattitudes, measurement error, and change / editors, Willem E. Saris, Paul M. Sniderman

Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2004]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Different judgment models for policy questions: competing or complementary? / Willem E. Saris -- Separation of error, method effects, instability, and attitude strength / William van der Veld and Willem E. Saris -- Good, bad, and ambivalent: the consequences of multidimensional political attitudes / Michael F. Meffert, Michael Guge, and Milton Lodge -- The not-so-ambivalent public: policy attitudes in the political culture of ambivalence / Marco R. Steenbergen and Paul R. Brewer -- The structure of political argument and the logic of issue framing / Paul M. Sniderman and Sean M. Theriault -- Floating voters in the U.S. presidential elections, 1948-2000 / John Zaller -- Importance, knowledge, and accessibility: exploring the dimensionality of strength-related attitude properties / George Y. Bizer, ... [et. al.] -- Stability and change of opinion: the case of Swiss policy against pollution caused by cars / Hanspeter Kriesi -- Attitude strength and response stability of a quasi-balanced political alienation scale in a panel study / Jaak Billiet, Marc Swyngedouw, and Hans Waege -- Coping with the nonattitudes phenomenon: a survey research approach / Peter Neijens -- The influence of information on considered opinions: the example of the choice questionnaire / Danielle Bütschi -- A consistency theory of public opinion and political choice: the hypothesis of menu dependence / Paul M. Sniderman and John Bullock Summary In democratic societies, opinion polls play a vital role. But it has been demonstrated that many people do not have an opinion about major issues--the "nonattitudes" problem. Also, the framing of questions in different ways can generate very different estimates of public opinion--the "framing" effect. Both dilemmas raise questions about the competence of ordinary citizens to play the role a democratic society ostensibly expects of them. Although the impact of some factors is well established, particularly political information and sophistication, much is yet to be understood. Building on and reaching beyond themes in the work of Philip Converse, one of the pioneers in the study of public opinion, Studies in Public Opinion brings together a group of leading American and European social scientists to explore a number of new factors, with a particular emphasis on the structure of political choices. In twelve chapters that reflect different perspectives on how people form political opinions and how these opinions are manipulated, this book offers an unparalleled view of the state-of-the-art research on these important questions as it has developed on two continents. The contributors include Matthew K. Berent, Jaak Billiet, George Y. Bizer, Paul R. Brewer, John Bullock, Danielle Bütschi, Michael Guge, Hanspeter Kriesi, Jon A. Krosnick, Milton Lodge, Michael F. Meffert, Peter Neijens, Willem E. Saris, Paul M. Sniderman, Marco R. Steenbergen, Marc Swyngedouw, Sean M. Theriault, William van der Veld, Penny S. Visser, Hans Waege, and John Zaller Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Public opinion. Political psychology. Public opinion polls. Public Opinion public opinion polls. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Political psychology Public opinion Public opinion polls Form Electronic book Author Saris, Willem E., editor Sniderman, Paul M., editor LC no. 2003064805 ISBN 0691188386 9780691188386 9780691119038 0691119031

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