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... generosity. The chapter also demonstrates that mass opinion is consistently among the largest sources of cross-national patterning in the overall output of welfare states. mass opinion policy responsiveness political officials social movements social services welfare spending aggregation of opinion...

... the conditions under which a president who believes that citizens are misinformed will nonetheless cater to this mass opinion. Second, the theory produces hypotheses about overall congruence between the president's policy choices and public opinion. The chapter first presents the theory in three sections...

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... speech in other institutions such as the media and has also shaped mass opinion and common understandings of constitutional norms. Ultimately, the book contends, this kind of informal law can have just as much power as the Constitution....

... by the shifting tides of mass opinion. The United States has never had a dictator or come close to having one, and rational actors should update their risk estimates in the light of experience. The benefit of tyrannophobia is minimal because demographic factors and the basic framework of elections provide...

... Congress is likely to reject a popular executive proposal, a president may appeal to the public about his position and thereby pressure members to enact it. Moreover, mass opinion can affect a president's likelihood of supporting an initiative. Future analysis of the president's role in the policy process...

...The central proposition of the embedded preferences theory is that mass policy preferences are a powerful factor behind welfare state output. Mass opinion is consequential in two ways. First, the preferences of the public can exert a direct influence over governments and welfare states...

... opinion may shape social policy, as well as a model of the sources of policy attitudes on the part of national publics. Central to this argument is the idea that mass opinion undergirds the contemporary welfare state, providing in many countries a powerful source of legitimacy its political defenders...

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...Domain-specific measures can present a limited, even at times misleading, portrait of trends and crossnational differences in welfare state regimes. This chapter considers the magnitude of the linkages between mass opinion and social policy across aggregated versus domain-specific dimensions...

...This chapter expands the inquiry from college campuses to civil society, concluding that hate speech regulation has permeated other elite institutions such as the media and has trickled down to influence mass opinion and common understandings of constitutional norms. The chapter reconnects the hate...

... scientific practice and good normative sense in line with the complexities involved in measuring, diagnosing, and interpreting mass opinion in linguistically diverse polities throughout the world. The chapter then considers language's role in political information processing in an environment inundated...

.... They recognized the great value of having a public that was broadly supportive of major foreign policy commitments—and, conversely, they recognized the danger of not having that support. While presidential rhetoric has remained an indispensable instrument for reaching and molding mass opinion from the late...