This research updates and expands upon Decker's article “Citizen attitudes toward the
police: a review of past findings and suggestions for future policy” by summarizing the …

Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United
States and France, Michèle Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the …

Moral differences contribute to social and political conflicts. Against this backdrop, colleges
and universities have been criticized for promoting liberal moral attitudes. However, direct …

This monumental study is a comprehensive critical survey of the policy preferences of the
American public, and will be the definitive work on American public opinion for some time to …

This new edition brings fully up-to-date a book widely praised for its clear and objective
presentation of changes in American racial attitudes during the second half of the twentieth …

I provide quantitative evidence of a cultural phenomenon. Using data on musical dislikes
from the 1993 General Social Survey, I link literatures on taste, racism, and democratic …

West European right‐wing extremist parties have received a great deal of attention over the
past two decades due to their electoral success. What has received less coverage, however …

The theory has been misconstrued in four primary ways, which are often expressed as the
claims of psychological reductionism, conceptual redundancy, biological reductionism, and …

Understand the “how” and the “why” behind research in political science. Step by step,
Political Science Research Methods walks students through the logic of research design …

This paper examines the effects of education and cognitive sophistication on willingness to
extend civil liberties to nonconformist groups. We conducted secondary analysis of the 1984 …