{"product_id":"public-opinion-in-america-moods-cycles-and-swings-second-edition-transforming-american-politics-9780813368900","title":"Public Opinion In America: Moods  Cycles  And Swings  Second Edition (Transforming American Politics)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublic opinion matters. It registers itself on the public consciousness  translates into politics and policy  and impels politicians to run for office and  once elected  to serve in particular ways.This is a book about opinion?not opinions. James Stimson takes the incremental  vacillating  time-trapped data points of public opinion surveys and transforms them into a conceptualization of public mood swings that can be measured and used to predict change  not just to describe it. To do so  he reaches far back in U.S. survey research and compiles the data in such a way as to allow the minutiae of attitudes toward abortion  gun control  and housing to dissolve into a portrait of national mood and change.Using sophisticated techniques of coding  statistics  and data equalization  the author has amassed an unrivaled database from which to extrapolate his findings. The results go a long way toward calibrating the folklore of political eras  and the cyclical patterns that emerge show not only the regulatory impulse of the 1960s and 1970s and the swing away from it in the 1980s; the cycles also show that we are in the midst of another major mood swing right now?what the author calls the ?unnoticed liberalism? of current American politics.Concise  suggestive  and eminently readable  Public Opinion in America is ideal for courses on public opinion  public policy  and methods  as well as for introductory courses in American government. Examples and illustrations abound  and appendixes document the measurement of policy mood from survey research marginals. This revised second edition includes updated data on public opinion and voters through the 1996 presidential election.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648104456245,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813368901","price":25.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813368900.jpg?v=1781709537","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/public-opinion-in-america-moods-cycles-and-swings-second-edition-transforming-american-politics-9780813368900","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}