This book presents a comprehensive examination of public opinion in the democratic world. Built around chapters that highlight key explanatory frameworks used i

Comparative analyses of the influence of public opinion on education policy in developed countries. Although research has suggested a variety of changes to educ

Although ambivalence characterizes the stance of scholars toward the desirability of close opinion-policy linkages in general, it is especially evident with reg

This 1992 book explains how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences.

A central question in political representation is whether government responds to the people. To understand that, we need to know what the government is doing, a