Public Opinion In America: Moods, Cycles, And Swings, Second Edition

by James A. Stimson

Overview

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 tran

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367319441
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/27/2019
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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