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John Zaller
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 50
Citations - 12220
John Zaller is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Political communication. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 50 publications receiving 11822 citations. Previous affiliations of John Zaller include University of California.
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The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
TL;DR: Zaller as discussed by the authors developed a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences, and applied this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and presidential approval, as well as voting behaviour in U.S. House, Senate and presidential elections.
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A Simple Theory of the Survey Response: Answering Questions versus Revealing Preferences
John Zaller,Stanley Feldman +1 more
TL;DR: This article proposed a simple model that converts this anomalous ; error variance" into sources of substantive insight into the nature of public opinion, assuming that most people are internally conflicted over most political issues and most respond to survey questions on the basis of whatever ideas are at the top of their heads at the moment of answering.
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Who gets the news? alternative measures of news reception and their implications for research
Vincent Price,John Zaller +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that respondents' background level of political knowledge is the strongest predictor of current news story recall across a wide range of topics, suggesting that there is indeed a general audience for news and that this audience is quite sharply stratified by preexisting levels of background knowledge.
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The Political Culture of Ambivalence: Ideological Responses to the Welfare State
Stanley Feldman,John Zaller +1 more
TL;DR: Antiwelfare 74 47 23 45 76 56 29 58 Ambivalent 20 16 26 20 11 13 19 13 Prowelfare 06 37 51 35 13 31 52 29 100 100 100100 100 100 99 100 100
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The American Ethos: Public Attitudes Toward Capitalism and Democracy
Herbert McClosky,John Zaller +1 more
TL;DR: The relationship between capitalism and democracy, ideology, and social and political awareness among the American public is discussed in this paper, with a focus on the role of women in American society.