Studies in Public Opinion - Attitudes, Nonattitudes, Measurement Error, and Change

List of Contributors vii Introduction Willem E. Saris and Paul M. Sniderman 1(16) PART I: A Synoptic Perspective CHAPTER 1 Different Judgment Models for Policy Questions: Competing or Complementary? Willem E. Saris 17(20) CHAPTER 2 Separation of Error, Method Effects, Instability, and Attitude Strength William van der Veld and Willem E. Saris 37(26) PART II: The Problem of Ambivalence CHAPTER 3 Good, Bad, and Ambivalent: The Consequences of Multidimensional Political Attitudes Michael F. Meffert, Michael Guge, and Milton Lodge 63(30) CHAPTER 4 The Not-So-Ambivalent Public: Policy Attitudes in the Political Culture of Ambivalence Marco R. Steenbergen and Paul R. Brewer 93(40) PART III: Politics and Nonattitudes CHAPTER 5 The Structure of Political Argument and the Logic of Issue Framing Paul M. Sniderman and Sean M. Theriault 133(33) CHAPTER 6 Floating Voters in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1948-2000 John Zaller 166(49) PART IV: Attitude Strength and Attitude Stability CHAPTER 7 Importance, Knowledge, and Accessibility: Exploring the Dimensionality of Strength-Related Attitude Properties George Y. Bizer, Penny S. Visser, Matthew K. Berent, and Jon A. Krosnick 215(27) CHAPTER 8 Stability and Change of Opinion: The Case of Swiss Policy against Pollution Caused by Cars Hanspeter Kriesi 242(26) CHAPTER 9 Attitude Strength and Response Stability of a Quasi-Balanced Political Alienation Scale in a Panel Study Jaak Billiet, Marc Swyngedouw, and Hans Waege 268(27) PART V: An Alternative to the Standard Opinion Poll CHAPTER 10 Coping with the Nonattitudes Phenomenon: A Survey Research Approach Peter Neijens 295(19) CHAPTER 11 The Influence of Information on Considered Opinions: The Example of the Choice Questionnaire Danielle Bütschi 314(23) PART VI: Looking Forward CHAPTER 12 A Consistency Theory of Public Opinion and Political Choice: The Hypothesis of Menu Dependence Paul M. Sniderman and John Bullock 337(22) Index 359