Ideology in America.
This book explains why the American public thinks of itself as conservative, but supports liberal positions on specific policy matters.
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Cambridge University Press,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Ideology in America; Advance Praise for Ideology in America; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; BACKGROUND; Acknowledgments; 1: The Meaning of Ideology in America; 1.1 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN LIBERALISM AND CONSERVATISM; 1.1.1 American Liberalism; 1.1.2 Conservatism; 1.1.3 A Brief History of the Debate; Liberalism; Conservatism; 1.2 THE TWO FACES OF IDEOLOGY IN AMERICAN POLITICS; 1.3 PLAN OF THE BOOK; 2: Operational Ideology: Preferences Data; 2.1 PUBLIC POLICY PREFERENCES; 2.1.1 Policy Preferences as Latent Ideology; 2.2 PREFERENCES: CONCEPT AND DATA.
- 2.2.1 The Preferences Database2.2.2 What Do the Data Mean?; Coding and Scoring; 2.3 WHY OPERATIONAL LIBERALISM?; 2.3.1 What Is Self-Interest?; 2.3.2 Evidence for Self-Interest; 2.3.3 Taxing and Spending; 2.4 QUESTION FORMATS; 2.4.1 Likert Items; 2.4.2 Forced Choice Formats; 2.5 THE DIMENSIONS OF POLICY PREFERENCE; 3: Operational Ideology: The Estimates; 3.1 THE DIMENSIONS OF OPERATIONAL IDEOLOGY; 3.1.1 A Tool for Dimensional Analysis; The Preferences Data; Average Level; Dynamics; A Model of Thermostatic Response; 3.1.2 The Evidence for Thermostatic Response.
- 3.2 A SECOND DIMENSION OF PREFERENCES3.3 ARE THE TWO DIMENSIONS INDEPENDENT?; 3.4 APPENDIX: CRITERION VARIABLES USED FOR DIMENSIONAL INTERPRETATION; 4: Ideological Self-Identification; 4.1 IDEOLOGY AS SELF-IDENTIFICATION; 4.2 BUILDING A HISTORICAL PORTRAIT OF SYMBOLIC IDEOLOGY; 4.2.1 Ideological Self-Identification: 1936-1967; 4.2.2 The Raw Materials; Administration; "Go Left"; Identification; Party to Join; Preference; Putting Them All Together; 4.2.3 A Complete Series; Was There Ever a Liberal Majority?; 4.3 EXPLANATIONS FOR GROWING CONSERVATIVE IDENTIFICATION.
- 4.3.1 FDR and the Politics of the 1930s4.3.2 LBJ and the Less Than Great Society; The Race Riots; The New Clientele of Liberalism; 4.3.3 Evidence of the Changing Associations of "Liberalism"; Blacks; Labor Unions; Urban Unrest; Two Kinds of Black Leaders; People on Welfare; The Vietnam War and the American Counterculture; After the 1960s; 4.3.4 Thermostatic Response; 4.4 A STATISTICAL MODEL; 4.5 CONCLUSIONS: BUILDING THE CONSERVATIVE SYMBOLIC MAJORITY; 5: The Operational-Symbolic Disconnect; 5.1 OPERATIONAL AND SYMBOLIC IDEOLOGY AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL.
- 5.2 THE OPERATIONAL-SYMBOLIC DISCONNECT: SOME INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL EVIDENCE5.2.1 Ideological Mismatching over Time; 5.3 WHO ARE THE "OPERATIONALLY LIBERAL SYMBOLIC CONSERVATIVES"?; 5.3.1 The Politically Disengaged?; 5.3.2 The Uneducated and Unsophisticated?; 5.3.3 True Moderates?; 5.3.4 Just Spenders, but Otherwise Conservative?; 5.3.5 Demographics; 5.4 IDEOLOGY AND POLICY PREFERENCES: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL VIEW; 5.5 THE OPERATIONAL-SYMBOLIC PARADOX REVISITED; 5.6 APPENDIX: QUESTIONS AND CODING USED IN CREATION OF GSS PREFERENCE MEASURES; 5.6.1 GSS Questions Used in Proxy for Mood.
