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Hard Choices, Easy Answers

Values, Information, and American Public Opinion
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Those who seek to accurately gauge public opinion must first ask themselves: why are certain opinions highly volatile while others are relatively fixed? Why are some surveys affected by question wording or communicative medium while others seem immune? In this text, R. Michael Alvarez and John Brehm develop a theory of response variability that, by reconciling the strengths and weaknesses of the standard approaches, should help pollsters and scholars alike better resolve such perennial problems. Working within the context of US public opinion, they contend that the answers Americans give rest on a variegated structure of political predispositions - diverse but widely shared values, beliefs, expectations and evaluations. Alvarez and Brehm argue that respondents deploy what they know about politics (often little) to think in terms of what they value and believe. Working with sophisticated statistical models, they offer an analysis of not just what a respondent is likely to choose, but also how variable those choices would be under differing circumstances. American public opinion can be characterized in one of three forms of variability, conclude the authors: ambivalence, equivocation

Author Biography:

R. Michael Alvarez is Professor of Political Science at the California Institute of Technology and the author of "Information and Elections". John Brehm is Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of "The Phantom Respondents" and the coauthor of "Working, Shirking, and Sabotage".
Release date NZ
July 21st, 2002
Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
55 line illus. 46 tables.
Pages
264
Dimensions
152x229x14
ISBN-13
9780691096353
Product ID
3951756

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