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"Mobilizing Public Opinion is original and makes its argument ably. Lee critiques 'elite-driven, top-down' accounts of mass opinion with the specific case study of mass support for the civil rights advances in the postwar period. He presents his analysis in a carefully nuanced way and makes a fundamentally important point that is sure to be debated and extended to other cases." - David Sears, University of California, Los Angeles
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"Mobilizing Public Opinion is original and makes its argument ably. Lee critiques 'elite-driven, top-down' accounts of mass opinion with the specific case study of mass support for the civil rights advances in the postwar period. He presents his analysis in a carefully nuanced way and makes a fundamentally important point that is sure to be debated and extended to other cases." - David Sears, University of California, Los Angeles
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What motivates us to change our opinions during times of political protest and social unrest? To investigate this question, Taeku Lee's smartly argued book looks to the critical struggle over the moral principles, group interests, and racial animosities that defined public support for racial policies during the civil rights movement, from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. Challenging the conventional view that public opinion is shaped by elites, Lee crafts an alternate account of the geographic, institutional, historical, and issue-specific contexts that form our political views. He finds that grassroots organizations and local protests of ordinary people pushed demands for social change into the consciousness of the general public. From there, Lee argues, these demands entered the policy agendas of political elites. Evidence from multiple sources including survey data, media coverage, historical accounts, and presidential archives animate his argument.
Ultimately, Mobilizing Public Opinion is a timely, cautionary tale about how we view public opinion and a compelling testament to the potential power of ordinary citizens.
Ultimately, Mobilizing Public Opinion is a timely, cautionary tale about how we view public opinion and a compelling testament to the potential power of ordinary citizens.
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The political status of African Americans in Selma, Alabama, at the time of the civil rights movement was an extreme example of the marginalization and exclusion facing black citizens throughout the Deep South. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
elite opinion theories, elite opinion theory, constituency mail, black counterelite, letters from southern whites, conventional political elites, activated opinion, discrimination within the federal government, racial attitude items, organizational mail, racial policy preferences, primary predispositions, black movement organizations, mass activation, opinion cues, black counterpublic, social welfare liberalism, perceived proximity, public political expression, racial group interests, party proximity, elite signals, institutional mobilization, latent opinion, elite cues Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African Americans, United States, Supreme Court, John Zaller, New York Times, Cold War, James Meredith, White House, President Truman, Walter Lippmann, Los Angeles, Ole Miss, President Eisenhower, Republican Party, Jim Crow South, Harry Moore, Emmett Till, Party Proximity, President Kennedy, University of Mississippi, Voting Rights Act, Lyndon Johnson, North Carolina, Philip Converse, Public Opinion Quarterly New!
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The political status of African Americans in Selma, Alabama, at the time of the civil rights movement was an extreme example of the marginalization and exclusion facing black citizens throughout the Deep South. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
elite opinion theories, elite opinion theory, constituency mail, black counterelite, letters from southern whites, conventional political elites, activated opinion, discrimination within the federal government, racial attitude items, organizational mail, racial policy preferences, primary predispositions, black movement organizations, mass activation, opinion cues, black counterpublic, social welfare liberalism, perceived proximity, public political expression, racial group interests, party proximity, elite signals, institutional mobilization, latent opinion, elite cues Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African Americans, United States, Supreme Court, John Zaller, New York Times, Cold War, James Meredith, White House, President Truman, Walter Lippmann, Los Angeles, Ole Miss, President Eisenhower, Republican Party, Jim Crow South, Harry Moore, Emmett Till, Party Proximity, President Kennedy, University of Mississippi, Voting Rights Act, Lyndon Johnson, North Carolina, Philip Converse, Public Opinion Quarterly New!
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- Public Opinion by Susan Herbst on 5 pages
- Issue Evolution by Edward G. Carmines on 4 pages
- The Black Public Sphere (Series): A Public Culture Book (Black Literature and Culture) by The Black Public Sphere Collective in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The New Negro : Voices of the Harlem Renaissance by Alain Locke on page 47, and Back Matter
- The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology) by John R. Zaller on page 24, and Back Matter
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- Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) by Jeff Manza in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Imagined Economies: The Sources of Russian Regionalism (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) by Yoshiko M. Herrera on page 66
- Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion) by Katherine Cramer Walsh in Back Matter
- A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow by David L. Chappell in Back Matter
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