The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion by John R. Zaller

Introduction: the fragmented state of opinion research 2. Table of contents: List of tables and figures Preface 1. Zaller emphasizes the role of political elites in establishing the terms of political discourse in the mass media and the powerful effect of this framing of issues on the dynamics of mass opinion on any given issue over time. The fourth is that, in constructing these statements, people make the greatest use of ideas that are, for various reasons, the most immediately salient to them. The third is that people rarely have fixed attitudes on specific issues rather, they construct 'preference statements' on the fly as they confront each issue raised. The second is that people react critically to political communication only to the extent that they are knowledgeable about political affairs. The first is that individuals differ substantially in their attention to politics and therefore in their exposure to elite sources of political information. The thoery is constructed from four basic premises. House, Senate, and presidential elections.

Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and presidential approval, as well as voting behaviour in U.S. OL4120137W Page_number_confidence 94.07 Pages 390 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220511164224 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 281 Scandate 20220510122652 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780521407861 Tts_version 5.In this book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Urn:lcp:natureoriginsofm0000zall:epub:e1c348a7-6872-4451-b2a4-9716efcddcec Foldoutcount 0 Identifier natureoriginsofm0000zall Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2m6vq5dfvg Invoice 1652 Isbn 0521404495Ġ521407869 Lccn 91043032 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-0000163 Openlibrary_edition

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The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion by John R. Zaller