Public Opinion Measuring the American Mind

Barbara A. Bardes is professor of political science at Raymond Walters College at the University of Cincinnati. She held a faculty position at Loyola University in Chicago for many years before returning to Cincinnati, her hometown, as a college administrator. Bardes has written articles on public opinion and foreign policy, and on women and politics. She authored THINKING ABOUT PUBLIC POLICY AND DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE: WOMEN AND POLITICAL POWER IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELS and co-authored PUBLIC OPINION: MEASURING THE AMERICAN MIND. She received bachelor's and master's degrees from Kent State University and her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati.

Robert W. Oldendick is professor of government and international studies and director of the Survey Research Laboratory at the University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati, where he was assistant director of the Institute for Policy Research. Oldendick has written numerous articles on survey research methodology and on various aspects of public opinion and political behavior.