Handbook on Politics and Public Opinion

Edited by Thomas J. Rudolph, Lincoln Distinguished Professorial Scholar and Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US

‘In the face of widespread polarisation, democracies in retreat, and crises of global proportions, a need has arisen to explore the individual and societal causes, interactions, and implications of these profound developments. This impressively comprehensive Handbook addresses this challenging task by focusing on the central role of public opinion, leaving hardly any question unanswered.’

• Contents:1 Public opinion and democracy 1Thomas J. RudolphPART I THE MEANING AND MEASUREMENT OF PUBLIC OPINION2 Diagnosing survey response quality 10D. Sunshine Hillygus and Tina LaChapelle3 The quantitative assessment of public opinion 26Allyson L. Holbrook and Joanne M. Miller4 The qualitative study of public opinion 41Katherine J. Cramer5 Implicit attitudes and mass political opinion 54Efrén O. Pérez and Bianca V. VicuñaPART II THE ORIGINS OF PUBLIC OPINION6 Genopolitics 71Gergő Závecz and Levente Littvay7 Personality, public opinion, and politics 83Megan L. Remmel and Jeffery J. Mondak8 Political socialization 99Marc HooghePART III THE STRUCTURE OF PUBLIC OPINION9 The conditional nature of ideology in mass publics 112Nathan P. Kalmoe10 Core values 128Paul Goren11 Ambivalence in mass politics 141Marco Steenbergen12 Partisanship and public opinion 168Ianne S. Wang and Samara Klar13 Race and public opinion: American dilemma, American divide 178Davin L. Phoenix and Francisco Jasso14 Public opinion and gender 193Mary-Kate Lizotte15 The religious politics of threat in religion and politics research 208Paul A. DjupePART IV ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON PUBLIC OPINION16 Electoral geography, political behavior and public opinion 224James G. Gimpel and Andrew Reeves17 Media effects and news exposure: new forms of data to address old questions 241Susan Banducci, Laszlo Horvath, Ekaterina Kolpinskaya and Daniel Stevens18 Affective polarization in the American public 257James N. Druckman and Jeremy LevyPART V THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PUBLIC OPINION19 Heuristics and cues 272Cheryl Boudreau20 Emotions in politics: The relevance of groups 283Bethany Albertson and Benjamin T. White21 Motivated reasoning in politics 298Eric GroenendykPART VI PUBLIC OPINION AND DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP22 Political knowledge 313Jennifer Wolak23 Political tolerance in an age of liberal democratic backsliding 328Mark Peffley and Robert Rohrschneider24 New thrusts and new opportunities in the study of citizen performancein democratic societies 341James H. Kuklinski and Benjamin MillerPART VII PUBLIC OPINION AND GOVERNMENT25 The nature of political trust in mass publics 355Marc J. Hetherington and Thomas J. Rudolph26 On collective representation 369Ross Buchanan, Megan Dias, and Christopher Wlezien27 Courts and public opinion: a critical review 382Brandon L. BartelsPART VIII PUBLIC OPINION AND PUBLIC POLICY28 Economic opinion 399Spencer Goidel and Paul M. Kellstedt29 Economic self-interest in public opinion about immigration 411Morris Levy and Matthew Wright30 Public opinion and foreign policy: beyond the “electoral connection” 428Peter Gries and Tao WangIndex