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The Changing American Voter.
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This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1976-11-01. It has received 978 citations till now.read more
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Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide
Pippa Norris,Ronald Inglehart +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of Islam and politics in post-communist Europe and the United States is presented, focusing on the theory of existential security and the consequences of Secularization.
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Issue Ownership in Presidential Elections, with a 1980 Case Study
TL;DR: In this paper, an issue ownership theory of voting was developed and applied to analyze the role of campaigns in setting the criteria for voters to choose between candidates, and the individual vote was significantly influenced by these problem concerns above and beyond the effects of the standard predictors.
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Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
TL;DR: In this paper, a multifactored model of social movement formation is presented, emphasizing resources, organization, and political opportunities in addition to traditional discontent hypotheses, and the McCarthy-Zald theory of entrepreneurial mobilization is critically assessed as an interpretation of the social movements of the 1960s-1970s.
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Effects of Public Opinion on Policy
TL;DR: This paper examined public opinion and policy data for the United States from 1935 to 1979 and found considerable congruence between changes in preferences and in policies, especially for large, stable opinion changes on salient issues.
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Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide
Pippa Norris,Ronald Inglehart +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of Islam and politics in post-communist Europe and the United States is presented, focusing on the theory of existential security and the consequences of Secularization.
Journal ArticleDOI
Issue Ownership in Presidential Elections, with a 1980 Case Study
TL;DR: In this paper, an issue ownership theory of voting was developed and applied to analyze the role of campaigns in setting the criteria for voters to choose between candidates, and the individual vote was significantly influenced by these problem concerns above and beyond the effects of the standard predictors.
Journal ArticleDOI
Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
TL;DR: In this paper, a multifactored model of social movement formation is presented, emphasizing resources, organization, and political opportunities in addition to traditional discontent hypotheses, and the McCarthy-Zald theory of entrepreneurial mobilization is critically assessed as an interpretation of the social movements of the 1960s-1970s.
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Effects of Public Opinion on Policy
TL;DR: This paper examined public opinion and policy data for the United States from 1935 to 1979 and found considerable congruence between changes in preferences and in policies, especially for large, stable opinion changes on salient issues.