Ambivalence, Politics and Public Policy

by Stephen C. Craig

Exploring the extent and nature of attitudinal ambivalence on public policy issues, these essays by distinguished scholars of public opinion examine citizens' conflicting attitudes about abortion, gay rights, environmental protection and property rights, crime and the police, and church-state relations. Linking ambivalence with a complex structure of belief, the contributors link the effects of ambivalence on information processing, the formation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403965722
• ISBN13: 9781403965721
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.7"