Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-315) and index.
The diverse paths to understanding public opinion / Clyde Wilcox -- Gender and public opinion / Kristi Andersen -- Race, class, and black-white differences in social policy views / Steven A. Tuch and Lee Sigelman -- Religion and public opinion in the 1990s : an empirical overview / Ted G. Jelen -- Media as opinion resources : are the 1990s a new ball game? / Doris A. Graber -- Ideology in the 1990s / Kathleen Knight and Robert S. Erikson -- Partisanship and issues in the 1990s / Barbara Norrander -- Public opinion and abortion law in the post-Webster era / Elizabeth Adell Cook -- Public opinion and foreign policy : how does the public think about America's role in the world? / Barbara Bardes -- Public opinion and economic policy in 1992 / William G. Jacoby -- Public opinion and political participation / John E. Hughes and M. Margaret Conway -- The cultural divide in American politics : moral issues and presidential voting / Alan I. Abramowitz -- Disconnected politics : public opinion and presidents / Lyn Ragsdale -- Public opinion and congressional power / John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse -- Public opinion and the Supreme Court : the insulated court? / Thomas Marshall