Richard Seltzer

US Public Opinion since the 1930s (eBook, PDF)

Galluping through History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is both a history book and a book on public opinion. George Gallup, who pioneered survey sampling methods and whose name in fact became synonymous with public opinion polls, conducted his first survey in 1936. The main part of this book starts there as well. Dedicating a chapter to each decade from the 1930s to the present, Seltzer discusses historical events of the period and what the U.S. public thought of those events according to Gallup polls and other public opinion surveys. Each chapter is divided into the following categories: world events; U.S. politics; race; sex and gender; the economy; science, technology and the environment; and popular trends. Within each chapter, approximately 40 survey questions were chosen for more extended analysis: breaking down the results by race, age, gender, education, region, and political party.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978750234
• Artikelnr.: 74830046

Autorenporträt

Richard Seltzer is professor of political science at Howard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. 1930s: The Great Depression and the Start of World War II 2. 1940s: World War II and the Onset of the Cold War 3. 1950s: Anti-Communism
Relative Economic Prosperity at Home and a Growing Cold War Abroad 4. 1960s: Era of Protest: Civil rights
Vietnam
and Counterculture 5. 1970s: Watergate
Normalization of Relations with China
Continuing Social and Political Protest
the Growth of International Terrorism
and Stagflation 6. 1980s: Ronald Reagan
the Fall of the Berlin Wall
the Soviet War in Afghanistan and AIDS 7. 1990s: The Collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia
the First Gulf War
the Genocide in Rwanda
Bill Clinton
and the Rise of the Internet 8. 2000s: Decade of 9/11
the Iraqi War
The Great Recession
and the Election of Barack Obama 9. 2010s: War against ISIS
the Tea Party
Black Lives Matter
Brexit
and the Election of Donald Trump 10. 2020: Covid-19
the Killing of George Floyd and Protests
An Attempt to Overthrow an Election Conclusion App