The rational public : fifty years of trends in Americans' policy preferences
This monumental study is a comprehensive critical survey of the policy preferences of the American public, and will be the definitive work on American public opinion for some time to come. Drawing on an enormous body of public opinion data, Benjamin I. Page and Robert Y. Shapiro provide the richest available portrait of the political views of Americans, from the 1930's to 1990. They not only cover all types of domestic and foreign policy issues, but also consider how opinions vary by age, gender, race, region, and the like. The authors unequivocally demonstrate that, notwithstanding fluctuatio
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1 online resource (xvi, 489 pages) : illustrations
9780226644806, 9780226644776, 9781282679191, 9786612679193, 0226644804, 0226644774, 1282679198, 6612679190
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Rational public opinion
The myth of capricious change
Opinions about social issues
Economic welfare
Foreign policy: World War II and the Cold War / coauthored by John M. Gillroy
Vietnam, Detente, and the New Cold War / coauthored by John M. Gillroy
Parallel publics
The causes of collective opinion change
Education and manipulation of public opinion
Democracy, information, and the rational public
English