Rational Public Fifty Years of Trends in Americans' Policy Preferences

Name: Rational Public Fifty Years of Trends in Americans' Policy Preferences
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ISBN: 9780226644783

ISBN-10: 0226644782

ISBN-13: 9780226644783

Edition: 1992

Authors: Benjamin I. Page, Robert Y. Shapiro

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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 fluctuations in the opinions of individuals, collective public opinion is remarkably coherent: it reflects…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 506
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Robert Y. Shapiro is professor of political science at Columbia University.



Tables and Figures Preface



Rational Public Opinion



The Myth of Capricious Change



Opinions about Social Issues



Economic Welfare



Foreign Policy: World War II and the Cold War




Vietnam, Dï¿½tente, and the New Cold War




Parallel Publics



The Causes of Collective Opinion Change



Education and Manipulation of Public Opinion



Democracy, Information, and the Rational Public


Appendix to Figures


Notes


Bibliography


Index