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Strategic Position with the Public
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George C. Edwards
Published: 14 June 2021
... thrusts of his policies, the partisan polarization of public opinion, including the policy divide between the parties, the strength and causes of affective polarization, the power of motivated reasoning, and their impact on presidential leadership. The chapter also devotes attention to the enduring...
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Going Public
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George C. Edwards
Published: 14 June 2021
...This chapter examines the Trump White House’s efforts to lead public opinion, often referred to as going public, and concentrates on the classic challenges that every administration faces in reaching the public with its messages (including national addresses), focusing the public’s attention...
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The Bully in the Pulpit
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George C. Edwards
Published: 14 June 2021
... Abraham Nixon Richard Thunberg Greta Dionne E J Jr impeachment of Trump Mann Thomas Ornstein Norman Schiff Adam approval of Trump public Donovan Joan Griffin Kathy Luntz Frank Obama Barack pandemic coronavirus public opinion alienating Trump Romney Mitt social media use of Bee Samantha...
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Introduction: Birth of a Public
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Susan Herbst
Published: 08 November 2021
... contemporary politics. birth of a public Twitter public fictional Bryce James Ma Joad Steinbeck character Steinbeck John American Commonwealth The Bryce Democracy in America Tocqueville Tocqueville Alexis de advertising and consumerism consumer culture Roosevelt Franklin D FDR as public opinion...
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Published: 08 November 2021
... Fouilhoux J André Harrison Wallace Fraser James Earle Kammen Michael Roosevelt Franklin D FDR as public opinion theorist Kuznick Peter J Coughlin Charles “Radio Priest” Dreyfuss Henry Seldes Gilbert Aldrich Winthrop Bernays Edward Morgenthau Henry Rockefeller Nelson Sarnoff David Moses Robert...
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Introduction
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Elisabeth Ivarsflaten and Paul M. Sniderman
Published: 15 December 2021
... sciences Bad Faith sequence Norwegian Citizen Panel field experiments France Germany inclusive politics Sweden inclusive tolerance hatred exclusion sequential factorials politics democracy public opinion Muslims minorities respect This book is about whether contemporary liberal democracies...
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Principles of Public Opinion
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Daniel Diermeier
Published: 31 March 2023
...This chapter explores the principles of public opinion. It highlights the conceptualization that corporate reputation is public opinion for companies. The availability of mass surveys was extremely important for the development of public opinion research since corporate reputation crucially...
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Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sympathy, Suffering, and Solidarity
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Jennifer Chudy
Published online: 23 January 2025
Published in print: 31 July 2024
... literature on prejudice; it demonstrates the multifaceted role of race in American politics and public opinion....
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The Roots of Polarization: From the Racial Realignment to the Culture Wars
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Neil A. O’Brian
Published online: 23 January 2025
Published in print: 25 September 2024
... in the 1970s-1980s was shaped by the racial realignment of the 1960s. Using a breadth of public opinion dating to the 1930s, this book shows that attitudes on civil rights were already linked with a range of other cultural attitudes, such as on abortion or gun control, decades before the parties split...
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Introduction
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Erica Charters
Published: 03 November 2014
... of operations and on a different challenge to troop health. Death of Wolfe The West Granby Marquis of John Manners Marquis of Granby Penny officers conventions of war paintings of the Seven Years’ War public opinion colonial compared with British Hayman Francis fiscal military state Mauduit Israel...
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Published: 03 November 2014
... hospital medicine. The chapter concludes by examining the relationship between disease and public opinion, outlining contemporary ideas about the health of the general population and the use of disease to criticize military and political leadership. This chapter provides insight into the nature...
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Friends and Foes in the World
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Benjamin I. Page and Marshall M. Bouton
Published: 01 October 2006
... and feeling thermometer ratings feelings about countries and leaders heuristics feelings as passions of public purposive belief systems rationality of collective public opinion feelings toward foreign countries feelings toward world leaders feeling thermometer questions feeling thermometer scores...
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Public Opinion and War: A Historical Perspective
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Adam J. Berinsky
Published: 01 October 2009
... War, 2006–7. Figure 2.5. Trends in support for the Iraq War. The era of public opinion polling began in the 1930s and has spanned wars great and small. Focusing on the period from 1950 to the present, this chapter provides an overview of the different wars the United States has fought since...
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Published: 01 October 2009
... different in several ways. But given circumstances that are similar in a number of other respects, party leaders took very different positions on the wisdom of military intervention in Kosovo and Iraq, reversing positions—and even rhetoric—between the two conflicts. This chapter shows that public opinion...
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Five an Age Full of Virtue
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Andrea Muehlebach
Published: 12 June 2012
...This chapter tracks the ways in which the moral neoliberal is differentially extracted from across the generational spectrum, as public opinion construes the elderly as a privileged locus of publicly valuable affect and action. It shows that the moral neoliberal finds its paradigmatic expression...
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Rights of the Pryvat Spyrit: From Dissent to Interpretation
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Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Published: 23 August 2017
... Abraham Bryce Viscount James Tocqueville Alexis de Chomsky Noam Lippmann Walter English discipline of opinion interpretation public opinion textual interpretation Nothing is more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than to see the easiness with which the many...
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Published: 15 December 2009
... fostered fantasies of public unity, many Americans during the 1830s did not agree that unity was the best model for the public, the best ideal for social improvement, or the best means of modulating public opinion. Calliopean Society Cumings Bradley debating societies education Northern Debating...
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Introduction
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Dingxin Zhao
Published: 15 April 2001
... linkages between the state and society. It examines the role of intellectual elites in the 1989 Movement, economic reform in China, state legitimacy, and public opinion about the Movement. Evans Peter Hu Yaobang Jiang Jieshi Sun Zhongshan CCP Chinese Communist Party xvn Great Hall of the People...
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Retrenchment, Restructuring, Persistence
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Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza
Published: 15 May 2007
... by such pressing questions, this book contends that public opinion has been an important, yet neglected, factor in shaping welfare states in recent decades. Analyzing data on sixteen countries, the book finds that the preferences of citizens profoundly influence the welfare policies of their governments...
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Why Personal Experience Isn’t Always Enough
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Amy E. Lerman
Published: 14 June 2019
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