Studies in public opinion : attitudes, nonattitudes, measurement error, and change / editors, Willem E. Saris, Paul M. Sniderman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Willem E. Saris and Paul M. Sniderman -- Ch. 1. Different judgment models for policy questions : competing or complementary? / Willem E. Saris -- Ch. 2. Separation of error, method effects, instability, and attitude strength / William van der Veld and Willem E. Saris -- Ch. 3. Good, bad, and ambivalent : the consequences of multidimensional political attitudes / Michael F. Meffert, Michael Guge and Milton Lodge -- Ch. 4. The not-so-ambivalent public : policy attitudes in the political culture of ambivalence / Marco R. Steenbergen and Paul R. Brewer -- Ch. 5. The structure of political argument and the logic of issue framing / Paul M. Sniderman and Sean M. Theriault -- Ch. 6. Floating voters in U.S. presidential elections, 1948-2000 / John Zaller -- Ch. 7. Importance, knowledge, and accessibility : exploring the dimensionality of strength-related attitude properties / George Y. Bizer, Penny S. Visser, Matthew K. Berent and Jon A. Krosnick -- Ch. 8. Stability and change of opinion : the case of Swiss policy against pollution caused by cars / Hanspeter Kriesi -- Ch. 9. Attitude strength and response stability of a quasi-balanced political alienation scale in a panel study / Jaak Billiet, Marc Swyngedouw and Hans Waege -- Ch. 10. Coping with the nonattitudes phenomenon : a survey research approach / Peter Neijens -- Ch. 11. The influence of information on considered opinions : the example of the choice questionnaire / Danielle Butschi -- Ch. 12. A consistency theory of public opinion and political choice : the hypothesis of menu dependence / Paul M. Sniderman and John Bullock.