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POSC 6143, Seminar in American Government & Politics: Public Opinion & Public Policy

A graduate seminar, taking both a normative and empirical perspective, on the relationship between public opinion and public policy; investigates and assesses alternative institutions for the revelation of preferences.

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 Texts

  • R.S. Erikson & K.L. Tedin, American public opinion (7th), Pearson Longman, 2005.
  • S. Herbst, Numbered voices: How opinion polling has shaped American politics, University of Chicago, 1993.
  • J.W. Kingdon, Congressmen's voting decisions (3rd), University of Michigan Press, 1989.
  • B. Norrander & C. Wilcox, eds., Understanding public opinion (2nd), CQ, 2002.

Norman Rockwell, "Freedom of Speech," Saturday Evening Post, 20 Feb 1943; Rockwell's Four Freedoms

 

 

 

 

F. David Levenbach, fidel@astate.edu, http://www.clt.astate.edu/fidel; personal http://www.geocities.com/aka_fidel

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