In this 1992 book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial ...
In this 1992 book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and presidential approval, as well as voting behaviour in U.S. House, Senate, and presidential elections. The thoery is constructed from four basic premises. The first is that individuals differ substantially in their attention to politics and therefore in their exposure to elite sources of political information. The second is that people react critically to political communication only to the extent that they are knowledgeable about political affairs. The third is that people rarely have fixed attitudes on specific issues; rather, they construct 'preference statements' on the fly as they confront each issue raised. The fourth is that, in constructing these statements, people make the greatest use of ideas that are, for various reasons, the most immediately salient to them. Zaller emphasizes the role of political elites in establishing the terms of political discourse in the mass media and the powerful effect of this framing of issues on the dynamics of mass opinion on any given issue over time.
List of tables and figures;
Preface;
1. Introduction: the fragmented state of opinion research;
2. Information, predispositions, and opinion;
3. How citizens acquire information and convert it into public opinion;
4. Coming to terms with response instability;
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List of tables and figures;
Preface;
1. Introduction: the fragmented state of opinion research;
2. Information, predispositions, and opinion;
3. How citizens acquire information and convert it into public opinion;
4. Coming to terms with response instability;
5. Making it up as you go along;
6. The mainstream and polarization effects;
7. Basic processes of 'attitude change';
8. Tests of the one-message model;
9. Two-sided information flows;
10. Information flow and electoral choice;
11. Evaluating the model and looking toward future research;
12. Epilogue: the question of elite domination of public opinion;
Measures appendix;
References;
Index.
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暂时只看了第123章,从intellectual heuristic的角度本书的框架蛮简洁实用的(虽然估计在心理学家看来可能有很多问题)。眼下后面章节对自己有用信息不大多,就先放着了。唯一疑问是关于predisposition的讨论中,作者似乎没有提到它有可能导致biased information acquisition and processing的可能性,也许后面章节会提到。(啊真讨厌这样的...暂时只看了第123章,从intellectual heuristic的角度本书的框架蛮简洁实用的(虽然估计在心理学家看来可能有很多问题)。眼下后面章节对自己有用信息不大多,就先放着了。唯一疑问是关于predisposition的讨论中,作者似乎没有提到它有可能导致biased information acquisition and processing的可能性,也许后面章节会提到。(啊真讨厌这样的三明治中文。。。但很多英文学术名词是没有统一的中文翻译啊)(展开)
1 有用 四十不惑 2008-09-28 10:44:01
One sentence summary: 唯上智与下愚不移
0 有用 南雪北庐 2019-10-30 01:42:58
暂时只看了第123章,从intellectual heuristic的角度本书的框架蛮简洁实用的(虽然估计在心理学家看来可能有很多问题)。眼下后面章节对自己有用信息不大多,就先放着了。唯一疑问是关于predisposition的讨论中,作者似乎没有提到它有可能导致biased information acquisition and processing的可能性,也许后面章节会提到。(啊真讨厌这样的... 暂时只看了第123章,从intellectual heuristic的角度本书的框架蛮简洁实用的(虽然估计在心理学家看来可能有很多问题)。眼下后面章节对自己有用信息不大多,就先放着了。唯一疑问是关于predisposition的讨论中,作者似乎没有提到它有可能导致biased information acquisition and processing的可能性,也许后面章节会提到。(啊真讨厌这样的三明治中文。。。但很多英文学术名词是没有统一的中文翻译啊) (展开)
0 有用 Qin 2018-03-21 12:24:35
update:第七章简直精彩,zaller和gebbes巴西的研究对威权国家public opinion可以说相当具有解释力,可惜模型里的变量一多,统计一fancy,information就只是很抽象且统一化的东西了
0 有用 犬儒女青年 2011-06-03 07:29:48
所谓“读过”就是指课程结束就不再看了。。。
1 有用 高端韭菜kimi 2014-03-19 09:38:44
专门打Converse那篇1W+引用文的脸