This study examines the possibility that the news media, by covering male and female
candidates differently, may influence the success of female candidates. A content analysis of …

I demonstrate that the intolerance of ordinary citizens matters for real politics even if strong
linkages to policy outputs do not exist. In particular, the model I test posits that cultural …

Using data from a national public opinion survey carried out in the Soviet Union during
November and December 1989, we explore two attitudes relevant to the revolutionary …

Most research on political socialization has suggested that the traditional formal civics
curriculum has limited impact on students' civic attitudes (Ehman, 1980). Political tolerance …

Why do the various tenets of the party identification approach apply with different force to
different political cultures? We develop a theoretical answer in the area of political …

This analysis of the decline in aggregate voting turnout in the United States between the
1950s and the 1980s attributes the decline to changes in the generational composition of …

This paper addresses whether structural factors or family socialization processes are
stronger correlates of attitude consensus between mothers and their adolescent children …

Two groups of adolescents and a group of Coast Guard officials were interviewed about
hypothetical political problems. Solutions presented were arrayed along a continuum of …

This article investigates the relations between public opinion and politics by looking at
changes in Israeli public opinion as a result of the intifada, using panel data. It finds that the …

The discipline of sociology faces important challenges that may result in a transformation of
the field. For example, the practice of specialization potentially takes on a new meaning in …