Talking Politics. (book reviews)

"Public opinion," in modern political science, usually appears before a conjunction. Part of "public opinion and elections," "public opinion and voting," or "public opinion and political behavior," it has been well in the middle of much of the action in American politics for the last three decades.

But it has lived at center stage mainly by conjunction, attached as an add-on topic, usually before the "and," to research agendas such as voting behavior which were actually the focus of the real work. The study of what citizens believe and ...

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