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Table of Contents:

• A Dataset, Some Theory, and a Method
• Organization of the Book
• 1. The Established Issues: Social Welfare
• Item Selection
• Exploratory Analysis
• Confirmatory Analysis
• Social Welfare in the Public Mind
• 2. The Established Issues: International Relations
• Item Selection
• Exploratory Analysis
• Confirmatory Analysis
• International Relations in the Public Mind
• 3. The New Issues: Civil Rights
• Item Selection
• Exploratory Analysis
• Confirmatory Analysis
• Civil Rights in the Public Mind
• 4. The New Issues: Cultural Values
• Item Selection
• Exploratory Analysis

• Confirmatory Analysis
• Cultural Values in the Public Mind
• 5. Blended Items: True, False, and Obscure
• Face Content and Appropriate Placement
• Cultural Values Revisited
• Blended Items in the Public Mind
• Cross-Domain Analysis
• A Voting Model
• 6. Voting Behavior: The Established Issues
• Presidential Voting and the Pure Politics of Policy Choice
• Social Welfare and Presidential Voting
• International Relations and Presidential Voting
• The Established Issues and the Vote
• 7. Voting Behavior: The New Issues
• Civil Rights and Presidential Voting
• Cultural Values and Presidential Voting
• Major Independent Candidates for President
• The New Issues and the Vote
• 8. Voting Behavior: The Rest of the Story
• Partisan Attachment, Policy Preference, and Voting Behavior
• Electoral Eras in Postwar Politics
• 9. The Issue Structure of Mass Politics
• An American Public Mind
• Issue Evolution in Postwar Politics
• Mini-Eras in Postwar Politics
• A Responsible Electorate?

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Author/Creator:

Claggett, William J. M. (William Jennings Mitchell)

Contributors:

Shafer, Byron E.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The American public mind: the issues structure of mass politics in the postwar United States [by Claggett, W.J.M.]

Subjects:

Political participation — United States — History — 20th century

Public opinion — United States — History — 20th century

Political culture — United States — History — 20th century

United States — Politics and government — 1945-1989

United States — Politics and government — 1989-

Since 1900

Public opinion

Political culture

Politics and government

Political participation

United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xiii, 295 pages ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

JK1764 .C535 2010

ISBNs:

9780521863735 (hardback)
9780521682329 (pbk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009026761

OCLC Numbers:

421534758