ISBN:
140397909X
,
1403965714
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 196 p)
,
ill
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Ambivalence and the Structure of Political Opinion
DDC:
303.3/8/0973
Keywords:
Public opinion
;
Ambivalence
;
Ambivalence
;
Public opinion ; United States
;
United States ; Politics and government ; Public opinion
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Electronic books
;
United States Politics and government
;
Public opinion
Abstract:
This book represents an important step in bringing together various strands of research about attitudinal ambivalence and public opinion. Essays by a distinguished group of political scientists and social psychologists provide a conceptual framework for understanding how ambivalence is currently understood and measured, as well as its relevance to the mass public's beliefs about our political institutions and national identity. The theoretical insights, methodological innovations, and empirical analyses will add substantially to our knowledge about the nature of ambivalence in particular, and
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 Pros and Cons: Ambivalence and Public Opinion; 2 Ambivalence as Internal Conflict; 3 Ambivalence and Accessibility: The Consequences of Accessible Ambivalence; 4 Ambivalence and Response Instability: A Panel Study; 5 Meta-Psychological Versus Operative Measures of Ambivalence: Differentiating the Consequences of Perceived Intra-Psychic Conflict and Real Intra-Psychic Conflict; 6 Ambivalence Toward American Political Institutions: Sources and Consequences; 7 Patriotic to the Core? American Ambivalence About America
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Is It Really Ambivalence? Public Opinion Toward Government SpendingReferences; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-191) and index -- Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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