Ambivalence, politics, and public policy / edited by Stephen C. Craig and Michael D. Martinez.
Exploring the extent and nature of attitudinal ambivalence on public policy issue, these essays by distinguished scholars of public opinion examine citizens' conflicting attitudes about abortion, gay rights, environmental protection and property rights, crime and the police and church-state rel...
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2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; About the Contributors; Preface; 1. Group Ambivalence and Electoral Decision-Making Howard Lavine and Marco Steenbergen; 2. Ambivalence and Attitude Change in Vote Choice: Do Campaign Switchers Experience Internal Conflict?; 3. What Happens When We Simultaneously Want Opposite Things? Ambivalence about Social Welfare; 4. Ambivalence and Value Conflict: A Test ofTwo Issues; 5. Education, Ideology, and Racial Ambivalence: Conflict Amplification or Conflict Resolution?
- 6. Managing Voter Ambivalence in Growth and Conservation Campaigns7. Ambivalence and Attitudes toward Church-State Relations; 8. Attitudinal Ambivalence and Political Opinion: Review and Avenues for Further Research; References; Index.