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Answer these questions please
- According to conventional and traditional views, how does the public form opinions and attitudes?Also, how stable are these attitudes over time?
- According to Zaller and Feldman, how do people make their opinions about policies?
- If opinions are unstable and not well formed, what are some things that cause a persons answers to change substantially over time?The authors call these “response effects”.
- Where do the authors get their data from to test how firm opinions of the public are?
- Do you think that the majority of the public have well formed and stable views on important policy matters?
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Public opinions
According to traditional and conventional views, people have pre-existing views and
attitudes towards political issues. The conventional attitude theory further asserts that during
interviews on various political matters, people choose attitudes that are closest to their preexisting attitudes. Hence, the two views hold that people have stable views on major political
matters that are reflected n their r...