GR Maio, JM Olson, MM Bernard, MA Luke - Handbook of social …, 2006 - Springer
History is replete with cases wiiere people have worked hard as individuals and groups for causes they regarded as important; these efforts have ranged in intensity from simple …
MB Smith - Public Opinion Quarterly, 1971 - academic.oup.com
An eminent social psychologist assesses past and potential contributions of psychology to an understanding of public opinion, and emphasizes the need for psychologists to join …
There has been much advancement in the field of public opinion research in the past few years, particularly with respect to the formation of policy attitudes in response to elite …
The role of public opinion polls in electoral democracy is undeniable because, for good or for bad, they affect, in part, the kinds of laws and policies elected officials enact. But the …
T Wood, E Oliver - Public Opinion Quarterly, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Ideology is a central concept in research on American public opinion, yet it continues to be used in crude ways. Recognizing both the widespread use of the seven-point scale, and its …
PE Jones - The Journal of Politics, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Members of different social groups often hold distinctive political attitudes. Research shows substantial divides based on characteristics like religion, race, gender, and sexuality …
Most Americans lack any substantial degree of ideological sophistication (Kinder 1998), yet they often manage to express coherent views across a range of issues. The conventional …
CM Federico, P Goren - … and psychological bases of ideology and …, 2009 - books.google.com
Political psychologists have long searched for links between citizens' personality characteristics and their political worldviews. In particular, much research has examined the …
AN Moskowitz, JC Jenkins - The Sociological Quarterly, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Political democracy assumes that citizens can form consistent political attitudes that guide their political actions, thereby communicating political preferences to elites. Responding to …