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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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A Simple Theory of the Survey Response: Answering Questions versus Revealing Preferences John Zaller; Stanley Feldman American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 36, No. 3. (Aug., 1992), pp. 579-616. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0092-5853%28199208%2936%3A3%3C579%3AASTOTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q American Journal of Political Science is currently published by Midwest Political Science Association. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/journals/mpsa.html. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to and preserving a digital archive of scholarly journals. For more information regarding JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. http://www.jstor.org Sun Jan 14 18:24:54 2007
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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...


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