CHAPTER 12: A Consistency Theory of Public Opinion and Political Choice: The Hypothesis of Menu Dependence

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I: A Synoptic Perspective
6. CHAPTER 1: Different Judgment Models for Policy Questions: Competing or Complementary? 17
7. CHAPTER 2: Separation of Error, Method Effects, Instability, and Attitude Strength 37
8. PART II: The Problem of Ambivalence
9. CHAPTER 3: Good, Bad, and Ambivalent: The Consequences of Multidimensional Political Attitudes 63
10. CHAPTER 4: The Not-So-Ambivalent Public: Policy Attitudes in the Political Culture of Ambivalence 93
11. PART III: Politics and Nonattitudes
12. CHAPTER 5: The Structure of Political Argument and the Logic of Issue Framing 133
13. CHAPTER 6: Floating Voters in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1948–2000 166
14. PART IV: Attitude Strength and Attitude Stability
15. CHAPTER 7: Importance, Knowledge, and Accessibility: Exploring the Dimensionality of Strength-Related Attitude Properties 215
16. CHAPTER 8: Stability and Change of Opinion: The Case of Swiss Policy against Pollution Caused by Cars 242
17. CHAPTER 9: Attitude Strength and Response Stability of a Quasi-Balanced Political Alienation Scale in a Panel Study 268
18. PART V: An Alternative to the Standard Opinion Poll
19. CHAPTER 10: Coping with the Nonattitudes Phenomenon: A Survey Research Approach 295
20. CHAPTER 11: The Influence of Information on Considered Opinions: The Example of the Choice Questionnaire 314
21. PART VI: Looking Forward
22. CHAPTER 12: A Consistency Theory of Public Opinion and Political Choice: The Hypothesis of Menu Dependence 337
23. Index 359