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Tides of consent : = how public opinion shapes American politics /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Tides of consent :/ James A. Stimson.
Reminder of title:	how public opinion shapes American politics /
Author:	Stimson, James A.,
Description:	1 online resource (xxii, 181 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Public opinion - United States. -
Subject:	United States - Defenses -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511791024
ISBN:	9780511791024 (ebook)

Tides of consent : = how public opinion shapes American politics /
Stimson, James A.,

Tides of consent :how public opinion shapes American politics /James A. Stimson. - 1 online resource (xxii, 181 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Politics is a trial in which those in government - and those who aspire to be - make proposals, debate alternatives, and pass laws. Then the jury of public opinion decides. It likes the proposals or actions or it does not. It trusts the actors or it doesn't. It moves, always at the margin, and then those who benefit from the movement are declared winners. This book is about that public opinion response. Its most basic premise is that although pubic opinion rarely matters in a democracy, public opinion change is the exception. Public opinion rarely matters, because the public rarely cares enough to act on its concerns or preferences. Change happens only when the threshold of normal public inattention is crossed. When public opinion changes, governments rise or fall, elections are won or lost, old realities give way to new demands.

ISBN: 9780511791024 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

570709
Public opinion
--United States.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

528513
United States
--Defenses

LC Class. No.: HN90.P8 / S845 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 320.973

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