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Basic Concepts

Basic Concepts. Belief Attitude Opinion Value Habit Belief System Ideology. Political Information. The Public’s Interest in Politics Information – Is there a common core? Distribution of Information within Population Canadian Data

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Basic Concepts

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  1. Basic Concepts • Belief • Attitude • Opinion • Value • Habit • Belief System • Ideology

  2. Political Information • The Public’s Interest in Politics • Information – Is there a common core? • Distribution of Information within Population • Canadian Data • Factors Affecting Information Level • Canada-U.S. Comparisons • Are We Better Informed than our Parents?

  3. 1. Converse’s Minimalist Thesis The Basic Argument Evidence for Minimalism Qualifying Minimalism Modes of Political Thinking "Nonattitudes" and "Issue Publics“ Summary: The Four Pillars of Minimalism Three Responses to the thesis

  4. Models of Opinion Formation • Text Book “File Drawer Model” • Converse’s “Black & White Model” • The “Cognitive Miser” Alternative • Zaller’s “Top of the Head” Model • The Importance of Accessibility • Explaining Opinion Volatility • Effects of the Question Asked • Rationality and Opinion Formation

  5. Childhood Political Socialization: Direct Learning • Primacy and Structuring Principles • What Children Learn • Sense of Nationality • Social Group Attitudes • Sense of Partisanship • Other Political Dispositions • Canadian Findings • How Children Learn • Effectiveness of Political Socializing Agents

  6. Personality & Attitudes 1. Introduction 2. The Authoritarian Personality Basic Thesis Origins Measurement Assessment -- Validity of the F-Scale -- Cognitive or working class authoritarianism -- Authoritarianism as “rigidity of the right” Only? 3. Sulloway's Birth Order Thesis  Evidence for the Thesis

  7. E. Adult Socialization Processes • Models of Development • Childhood Socialization Model • Lifelong Openness Model • Life Course/Life Cycle Model • Cohort / Impressionable Years Model • Political Generations Model • Evaluation of Models • Aging and Conservativism Hypothesis • Materialism – Post-Materialism Hypothesis

  8. F. Social Origins of Political Attitudes I. Explaining Social Group Effects • Structural Arguments • Rational choice • Socialization processes • Social Processes • Reference group effects (rational choice) • Positioning thesis • Primary group effects II. Climate of Opinion Effects • Spiral of Silence thesis • Bandwagon theses

  9. G. Impact of the Mass Media on Political Attitudes • Direct Effects Model • Minimal Effects Model • Social Influence Thesis • Cognitive Consistency Thesis • Challenges to the Minimal Effects Model • A Changing Social World • Unmotivated Selectivity • Agenda Setting thesis • Revisiting Persuasion Effects • The Revisionist Model

  10. H. Aggregate Public Opinion • Two Conceptions of Public Opinion • As aggregated opinions of the masses • As an organic/corporate property of society • Describing Public Opinion • Factors Affecting the Movement of Public Opinion • A Rational Public?

  11. Pollster #1, April, 2004 Question #1 Canada’s public services should be delivered by public sector workers accountable to elected representatives and the public, not by corporations accountable to shareholders.

  12. Pollster #1, April, 2004 Question #2 Canada should rebuild its public infrastructure, such as hospitals, schools, highways and water systems, through direct public investment and not through public-private joint ventures with corporations.

  13. Pollster #1, April, 2004 Question #3 Canada’s health care system should exclude corporations that operate for-profit, and instead rely solely on public and not-for-profit health care providers.

  14. The Second SalvoPollster #2, October 2004 We see a lot in the media these days about the need for new or improved roads, hospitals, schools, public transit systems, safe water systems, supplies of electricity and so on. Please tell me if you strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree or strongly disagree with each of the following statements: Governments are having trouble keeping pace with demands for these types of services. It is time to allow the private sector to deliver these types of services 

  15. Unframed The following are a number of statements about Canada’s future. Please tell me if you strongly agree . . .with each of the following statements: Governments are having trouble keeping pace with demands for new or improved roads . . . supplies of electricity and so on. It is time to allow the private sector to deliver these types of services  Unframed & Unprimed The following are a number of statements about Canada’s future. Please tell me if you strongly agree . . . with the following statement: It is time to allow private sector involvement in the delivery of such services as new or improved roads, hospitals, schools, public transit systems, safe water systems, supplies of electricity and so on. LISPOP Versions

  16. Results of Split Ballot Experiment – on Privatization

  17. If your access to services remained the same, if the quality of services was the same or better, and if the cost to you was no more than when the services are provided by the government, would you support or oppose private sector involvement in the following areas: Would you support or oppose private sector involvement in the following areas Sector By Sector QuestionsEnvironics LISPOP Version Version

  18. Financing and Construction of Hospitals Non-Health Related Services in Hospitals Roads Water Treatment Sewage Recreation Transit Power Involvement in . . .

  19. Effect of Removing Preface

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