[PDF] Making Sense Of Public Opinion eBook

Author : Claudia Strauss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 24,33 MB
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107019923

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This book proposes that Americans form views on immigration and social welfare programs from conventional ways of speaking rather than from ideologies.

Author : John Zaller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 1992-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521407861

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This 1992 book explains how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences.

Author : Katherine J. Cramer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 022634925X

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“An important contribution to the literature on contemporary American politics. Both methodologically and substantively, it breaks new ground.” —Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare When Scott Walker was elected Governor of Wisconsin, the state became the focus of debate about the appropriate role of government. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall, he was subsequently reelected. But why were the very people who would benefit from strong government services so vehemently against the idea of big government? With The Politics of Resentment, Katherine J. Cramer uncovers an oft-overlooked piece of the puzzle: rural political consciousness and the resentment of the “liberal elite.” Rural voters are distrustful that politicians will respect the distinct values of their communities and allocate a fair share of resources. What can look like disagreements about basic political principles are therefore actually rooted in something even more fundamental: who we are as people and how closely a candidate’s social identity matches our own. Taking a deep dive into Wisconsin’s political climate, Cramer illuminates the contours of rural consciousness, showing how place-based identities profoundly influence how people understand politics. The Politics of Resentment shows that rural resentment—no less than partisanship, race, or class—plays a major role in dividing America against itself.

Author : Claudia Strauss
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781139776622

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"Americans express contradictory views on immigration and social welfare programs. Claudia Strauss proposes that these views are formed not from standard ideologies or broad values, but from conventional ways of speaking about topics. The wording of a survey question or political message may cue one specific discourse, while a slightly different wording can trigger opposing opinions held by the same speaker. By identifying and describing common vernacular discourses, this book illustrates how discourses construct our opinions on immigration and social welfare. This study draws on interviews with people from various backgrounds to demonstrate how we acquire conventional discourses from our opinion communities. Immigration and Social Programs explains what conventional discourses are, how to study them, and why they are fundamental elements of public opinion and political culture"--

Author : James E. Campbell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691180865

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An eye-opening look at how and why America has become so politically polarized Many continue to believe that the United States is a nation of political moderates. In fact, it is a nation divided. It has been so for some time and has grown more so. This book provides a new and historically grounded perspective on the polarization of America, systematically documenting how and why it happened. Polarized presents commonsense benchmarks to measure polarization, draws data from a wide range of historical sources, and carefully assesses the quality of the evidence. Through an innovative and insightful use of circumstantial evidence, it provides a much-needed reality check to claims about polarization. This rigorous yet engaging and accessible book examines how polarization displaced pluralism and how this affected American democracy and civil society. Polarized challenges the widely held belief that polarization is the product of party and media elites, revealing instead how the American public in the 1960s set in motion the increase of polarization. American politics became highly polarized from the bottom up, not the top down, and this began much earlier than often thought. The Democrats and the Republicans are now ideologically distant from each other and about equally distant from the political center. Polarized also explains why the parties are polarized at all, despite their battle for the decisive median voter. No subject is more central to understanding American politics than political polarization, and no other book offers a more in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the subject than this one.

Author : Jeffrey M. Berry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0190498463

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A stimulating expose on how the roots of today's partisan rage lie in the "outrage industry" - deregulated, commodified media markets that will do anything for money and attention.

Author : Walter Lippmann
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Public opinion
ISBN :

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In what is widely considered the most influential book ever written by Walter Lippmann, the late journalist and social critic provides a fundamental treatise on the nature of human information and communication. The work is divided into eight parts, covering such varied issues as stereotypes, image making, and organized intelligence. The study begins with an analysis of "the world outside and the pictures in our heads", a leitmotif that starts with issues of censorship and privacy, speed, words, and clarity, and ends with a careful survey of the modern newspaper. Lippmann's conclusions are as meaningful in a world of television and computers as in the earlier period when newspapers were dominant. Public Opinion is of enduring significance for communications scholars, historians, sociologists, and political scientists. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.