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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452047403321

Autore

Ellis Christopher <1978->

Titolo

Ideology in America / / Christopher Ellis, James A. Stimson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-107-38680-2

1-107-23103-5

1-280-66413-4

9786613641069

1-139-37884-8

1-139-09400-9

1-139-37598-9

1-139-37741-8

1-139-37199-1

1-139-38027-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 206 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

320.50973

Soggetti

Ideology - United States

Conservatism - United States

Liberalism - United States

Social conflict - United States

Divided government - United States

Public opinion - United States

Americans - Attitudes

United States Politics and government Public opinion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The meaning of ideology in America -- 2. Operational ideology: preferences data -- 3. Operational ideology: the estimates -- 4. Ideological self-identification -- 5. The operational-symbolic disconnect -- 6. Conservatism as social and religious identity -- 7. Conflicted conservatism -- 8. Ideology and American political



outcomes.

Sommario/riassunto

Public opinion in the United States contains a paradox. The American public is symbolically conservative: it cherishes the symbols of conservatism and is more likely to identify as conservative than as liberal. Yet at the same time, it is operationally liberal, wanting government to do and spend more to solve a variety of social problems. This book focuses on understanding this contradiction. It argues that both facets of public opinion are real and lasting, not artifacts of the survey context or isolated to particular points in time. By exploring the ideological attitudes of the American public as a whole, and the seemingly conflicted choices of individual citizens, it explains the foundations of this paradox. The keys to understanding this large-scale contradiction, and to thinking about its consequences, are found in Americans' attitudes with respect to religion and culture and in the frames in which elite actors describe policy issues.