Cal Clark, Don-Terry Veal

Public Opinion in Alabama

Looking Beyond the Stereotypes

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an in-depth examination of public opinion in Alabama to see whether it follows the stereotype of ideological and partisan polarization in the United States. The authors show that even in such a staunchly conservative state, public opinion is considerably more nuanced and complex than this stereotype, suggesting a need to transcend the competing conservative and liberal orthodoxies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9780739145418
• ISBN-10: 073914541X
• Artikelnr.: 32086203

Autorenporträt

Cal Clark, Don-Terry Veal

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Chapter 1
Chapter 2 Public Opinion and Politics
Chapter 3 Contradictory Models of Political Attitudes
Chapter 4 How Alabamians View Their Public Officials
Chapter 5 Organization of the Book
Part 6 Chapter 2
Chapter 7 Support for Constitutional Reform
Chapter 8 Moderate Support for Rewriting the Alabama State Constitution
Chapter 9 Stereotypes of Who Supports and Opposes Constitutional Revision
Chapter 10 Actual Influences on Attitudes about Constitutional Revision
Chapter 11 Assessing the Simultaneous Effects of the Explanatory Items: The
Centrality of the Government Activism Dimension
Chapter 12 Attitudes about Home Rule
Chapter 13 Public Opinion about Constitutional Reform
Part 14 Chapter 3
Chapter 15 Views about the Role of Government
Chapter 16 Somewhat Contradictory Positions on Tax Issues
Chapter 17 How Alabamians Divide on Tax Burden and Tax Policy: Support for
the Anti-Tax Economic Stress Model
Chapter 18 The Complex Cleavages over Governor Riley's Tax Referendum
Chapter 19 Alabamians' Evident Desire for Public Services
Chapter 20 How Alabamians Divide on Government Services: The Prevalence of
the Standard Ideological Model
Chapter 21 The Contradictory Implications of Alabamians' Views about Public
Services
Part 22 Chapter 4
Chapter 23 More Specific Views about Social Services
Chapter 24 Alabamians' Views on Public Education: Concerns about Both
Quality and Traditional Values
Chapter 25 How Alabamians Divide on Education: Different Dynamics for
Different Issues
Chapter 26 Alabamians' Views about Health Care: Is the Glass Partially
Empty or Partially Full?
Chapter 27 How Alabamians' Divide on Health Care: Medical Problems over
Ideology
Chapter 28 The Conundrum about Education and Health Care in Alabama
Part 29 Chapter 5
Chapter 30 Religion and Public Life
Chapter 31 Alabamians Views on Religion and Politics: Quite Conservative
But with a Couple of Caveats
Chapter 32 How Alabamians Divide on the Role of Religion in Public Life:
Clearly a Cultural Issue
Chapter 33 A Resistance to Over-Politicizing Some Religious Issues?
Chapter 34 Religion and Political Life in Alabama
Part 35 Chapter 6
Chapter 36 Views about Crime and Immigration
Chapter 37 Alabamians' Views about Crime: Significant But Not Overwhelming
Concern
Chapter 38 How Alabamians Divide on Crime: An Absence of Significant
Relationships
Chapter 39 Strong Concern over Illegal Immigration
Chapter 40 Why Alabamians Differ about Illegal Immigration: General Support
for the Cultural Issues Ideological Model
Chapter 41 Immigration and Crime as Issues in Alabama
Part 42 Chapter 7
Chapter 43 Public Opinion in Alabama and the United States: Defying the
Stereotypes
Chapter 44 What Do Alabamians Want?
Chapter 45 The Similar Dynamics in U.S. Public Opinion
Chapter 46 Public Opinion and the Polarization of U.S. Politics
Chapter 47 About the Authors