ISBN:
9780521404495
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (386 p)
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
Parallel Title:
Print version The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
DDC:
303.3/8
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This 1992 book explains how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of tables and figures; TABLES; FIGURES; Preface; 1 Introduction: The fragmented state of opinion research; 2 Information, predispositions, and opinion; INFORMATION AND ELITE DISCOURSE; Elite discourse and racial attitudes; Conceptualizing and measuring elite discourse; MASS ATTENTION TO ELITE DISCOURSE; POLITICAL PREDISPOSITIONS; WHAT IS AN OPINION?; Problems with mass opinion reports: Over time instability; Problems with mass opinion reports: ""Response effects""; Question-wording effects
Description / Table of Contents:
The need for a model of the survey responseBackground of the question-answering model; SUMMARY; 3 How citizens acquire information and convert it into public opinion; SOME DEFINITIONS; THE MODEL; HOW THE MODEL IS USED IN THIS BOOK; 4 Coming to terms with response instability; THE 1987 PILOT STUDY; FIRST DEDUCTIONS FROM THE MODEL; RESPONSE INSTABILITY; 5 Making it up as you go along; RESPONSE EFFECTS; ""PRIMING"" AS A TYPE OF SALIENCE EFFECT; EFFECTS OF THOUGHT ON THE RELIABILITY OF ATTITUDE REPORTS; CONCLUSIONS; Nature of public opinion; Public opinion and democracy
Description / Table of Contents:
6 The mainstream and polarization effectsMAINSTREAM EFFECT; THE POLARIZATION EFFECT; Empirical support for the polarization effect; ATTITUDE CONSTRAINT AND MASS BELIEF SYSTEMS; ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS; 7 Basic processes of ""attitude change""; MODELING ATTITUDE CHANGE; A RECEPTION-ACCEPTANCE MODEL OF ATTITUDE CHANGE; PATTERNS OF ATTITUDE CHANGE; INITIAL TESTS OF THE MODEL; A STATISTICAL MODEL OF ATTITUDE CHANGE; CONCLUDING REMARKS; APPENDIX; 8 Tests of the one-message model; CHARACTERISTIC PATTERNS OF ATTITUDE CHANGE; The case of presidential popularity; Opinion formation on new issues
Description / Table of Contents:
Evaluating the attitude-change typologyMICROFOUNDATIONS OF RESISTANCE TO PERSUASION; Preexisting considerations and inertial resistance; Partisan resistance at the level of considerations; AGE AND RESISTANCE TO CHANGE; Resistance to liberal internationalism; Resistance to the liberal anti-Vietnam War movement; Generation and race; General effects of age; SUMMARY; APPENDIX: ESTIMATING THE PRESIDENTIAL POPULARITY MODEL; 9 Two-sided information flows; EBB AND FLOW OF SUPPORT FOR THE VIETNAM WAR; A TWO-MESSAGE MODEL OF ATTITUDE CHANGE; DATA AND RESULTS; Estimation of the model
Description / Table of Contents:
Patterns of support for and opposition to the warAFRO-AMERICANS' SUPPORT FOR THE WAR; IMPLICATIONS; APPENDIX A: AN ALTERNATIVE FORM OF TWO-MESSAGE MODEL; APPENDIX B: MEASUREMENT OF HAWK-DOVE ATTITUDES; 10 Information flow and electoral choice; INERTIAL RESISTANCE TO INCUMBENT-DOMINATED HOUSE CAMPAIGNS; Defection patterns in House elections; COUNTERVALENT AND PARTISAN RESISTANCE TO INCUMBENT-DOMINATED HOUSE CAMPAIGNS; Focusing on partisan resistance; Simulating the effects of campaign intensity; Summary on House elections; HOUSE ELECTIONS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Description / Table of Contents:
THE DYNAMICS OF PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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