2nd Edition
Public Opinion In America Moods, Cycles, And Swings, Second Edition
By James A. Stimson
Copyright 1999
192 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Public opinion matters. It registers itself on the public consciousness, translates into politics and policy, and impels politicians to run for office and, once elected, to serve in particular ways.This is a book about opinion?not opinions. James Stimson takes the incremental, vacillating, time-trapped data points of public opinion surveys and transforms them into a conceptualization of public... Read more
Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition: An Unfinished Essay? -- Public Opinion? -- The Concept of Policy Mood -- Developing a Measure of Mood -- The Components of Mood -- An Electoral Connection? -- Reflections on the Present and Future of American Politics -- An Algorithm for Estimating Mood -- Selected Data Series -- Selected Domestic Policy Survey Questions
Biography
James A. Stimson is Raymond Dawson Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the author of numerous articles and essays of macro theory, political economy, voting behaviour, and methodology. He coauthored, with Edward G. Carmines, Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American Politics (1989).
