Studies in Public Opinion Attitudes, Nonattitudes, Measurement Error, and Change

"Addressing an extremely important topic, this book can generate a new level of understanding about response instability and, more generally, the role of low information voters in democratic governance. It goes a long way to getting us out of a rut in which we have been stuck for a long time. Individual works have challenged Converse's inferences for decades. ButStudies in Public Opinionrepresents a systematic and multifaceted challenge that takes advantage of diverse intellectual currents, a challenge mounted by a formidable group of scholars from two continents. The editors have done a very good job of pulling together some state of the art scholarship on the topic."--Peter Nardulli, University of Illinois "This collection is distinguished by the quality of the individual essays and the unity of the themes. Questions of nonattitudes and the effects of political sophistication are central to political psychology, and so no one in the field should pass up this book."--Robert Jervis, Columbia University, author ofSystem Effects: Complexity in Political and Social LifeSaris, Willem E. is the author of 'Studies in Public Opinion Attitudes, Nonattitudes, Measurement Error, and Change', published 2004 under ISBN 9780691119038 and ISBN 0691119031.