Ideology and Issues
Do people hold coherent world views? Do people hold meaningful policy attitudes?
Readings
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Converse, P. E. (1964). The nature of belief systems in mass publics. In Apter, D., editor, Ideology and discontent. Free Press
Ansolabehere, S., Rodden, J., and Snyder, J. M. (2008). The strength of issues: Using multiple measures to gauge preference stability, ideological constraint, and issue voting. American Political Science Review, 102(2):215–232
Freeder, S., Lenz, G. S., and Turney, S. (2019). The Importance of Knowing “What Goes with What”: Reinterpreting the Evidence on Policy Attitude Stability. Journal of Politics, 81(1):274–290
Notes
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