The rational public fifty years of trends in Americans' policy preferences

Page, Benjamin I. (Author). Shapiro, Robert Y., 1953- (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780226644806 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0226644804 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xvi, 489 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1992.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:apr.13 Multi-User. CatBulkString:apr.11.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-466) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.