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Bibliography at Public Opinion Pros


This is a cumulative bibliography of books and articles cited in Public Opinion Pros articles, to be supplemented in the future with other works of interest. Our February 2005 issue will include a form to submit information on other publications you would like to see added to this list, not including articles from Public Perspective, whose searchable index can be accessed through the link below:

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Public Opinion Top 50

For a list of fifty books that significantly shaped public opinion research recommended by the American Association for Public Opinion Research, visit the AAPOR website at
http://www.aapor.org/default.asp?page=survey_methods/recommended_reading

Acculturation

Burnam, A. M., R. L. Hough, M. Karno, C. A. Telles, and J. I. Escobar. 1987. Measurement of acculturation in a community population of Mexican Americans. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 9:105-30.

Clark, Lauren, and Lisa Hofsess. 1998. Acculturation. In Handbook of immigrant health, ed. Sana Loue, 37-59. New York: Plenum Press.

Cuéllar, Arnold, and R. Maldonado. 1995. Acculturation rating scale for Mexican Americans II: A revision of the original ARSMA scale. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 17:275-304.

Cuéllar, Israel, Bill Nyberg, Roberto Maldonado, and Robert Roberts. 1997. Ethnic identity and acculturation in a young adult Mexican-origin population. Journal of Community Psychology 25:535-49.

Dawson, Edwin J., William D. Crano, and Michael Burgoon. 1996. Refining the meaning and measurement of acculturation: Revisiting a novel methodological approach. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 20:97-114.

Deyo, R. A., A. K. Diehl, H. Hazuda, and M. P. Stern. 1985. A simple language-based acculturation scale for Mexican Americans: Validation and application to health care research. American Journal of Public Health 75:51-55.


Elections

Crespi, Irving. 1988. Pre-election polling: Sources of accuracy & error. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Plissner, Martin. The control room: How television calls the shots in presidential elections. Touchstone, 2000.


End of life issues

Benson, John M., and Melissa J. Herrmann. 1999. Right to die or right to life? The public on assisted suicide. Public Perspective 10(4): 15-19.


Ideology

Kristol, Irving. 1995. Neoconservatism: The autobiography of an idea. New York: Free Press.


Minorities

Dutwin, David J., Mollyann Brodie, Melissa J. Herrmann, and Rebecca Levin. 2004. Standing at the crossroads of identity and identification: Latinos and party identification. Phoenix, AZ: Presented at the 2004 annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.

Himmelfarb, Harold S., R. Michael Loar, and Susan H. Mott. 1983. Sampling by ethnic surnames: The case of American Jews. Public Opinion Quarterly 47:247-60.

Keefe, Susan E., and Amado M. Padilla. 1987. Chicano identity. Albuquerque, MN: University of New Mexico Press.


Party identification

Dutwin, David J., Mollyann Brodie, Melissa J. Herrmann, and Rebecca Levin. 2004. Standing at the crossroads of identity and identification: Latinos and party identification. Phoenix, AZ: Presented at the 2004 annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.


Party politics

Dionne, E. J. Jr. 2004. Stand up and fight back: Republican toughs, Democratic wimps, and the politics of revenge. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Reichley, A. James. 1992. The life of the parties. New York: Free Press.


Presidential approval

Edwards, George C. III, with Alec M. Gallup. 1990. Presidential approval: A sourcebook. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Moore, David W. 2001. Top ten Gallup presidential approval ratings. Gallup press release, September 24.


Public opinion, general

Jacobs, Lawrence R. and Robert Y. Shapiro. Politicians don't pander: Political manipulation and the loss of democratic responsiveness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Page, Benjamin I. and Robert Y. Shapiro. The rational public: Fifty years of trends in Americans' policy preferences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Stimson, James A. Tides of consent: How public opinion shapes American politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.


Religion

Benson, John M., Tina M. Reigel, and Melissa J. Herrmann. 2002. Gambling, governments and God. Public Perspective 13(1): 34-37.

Benson, John M., and Lois Timms-Ferrara. 2003. Death and life: Religiousness and capital punishment. Public Perspective 14(1): 33-36.

Bishop, George. 1999. The polls-trends: Americans' belief in God. Public Opinion Quarterly 63:421-34.

Dubin, B. 1999. Religious faith in Russia of the 90s. The Russian Public Opinion Monitor, No. 1:31-39.

Gautier, Mary L. 1997. Church attendance and religious belief in postcommunist societies. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 36 (June): 289-96.

Glenn, Norval D. 1987. The trend in "no religion": Respondents to U.S. national surveys, late 1950s to early 1980s. Public Opinion Quarterly 51:293-314.

Greeley, Andrew M. 1994. A religious revival in Russia. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 33:253-72.

Groeneman, Sid, and Gary Tobin. 2004. The decline of religious identity in the United States. San Francisco: Institute for Jewish & Community Research.

Hout, Michael and Claude S. Fischer. 2002. Why more Americans have no religious preference. American Sociological Review 67 (April): 165-90.

Kelley, Jonathan and De Graaf, Nan Dirk. 1997. National context, parental socialization, and religious belief: Results from 15 nations. American Sociological Review 62 (August): 639-59.

Keysar, Ariela, Egon Mayer, and Barry A. Kosmin. 2003. No religion: A profile of America's unchurched. Public Perspective 14(1): 28-32.

Kohut, Andrew, John C. Green, Scott Keeter, and Robert C. Toth. 2000. The diminishing divide: Religion's changing role in American politics. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.

Kosmin, Barry A., Egon Mayer, and Ariela Keysar. 2001. American Religious Identity Survey 2001. New York: Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Layman, Geoffrey. 2001. The great divide: Religious and cultural conflict in American party politics. New York: Columbia University Press.

Lozny, Dusan and Marcratilova, Julana. 2001. Religion and secularization in the Czech Republic. Czech Sociological Review 9 (Spring): 85-98.

Meulemann, Heiner. 2000. Beyond unbelief: Religious uncertainty and religious indifference in countries with self induced and enforced secularization. European Societies 2:167-94.

Roof, Wade Clark. 1999. The spiritual marketplace. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Smith, Tom W. 2003. Altruism in contemporary America: A report from the National Altruism Study. Unpublished report prepared for the Fetzer Institute, July.


Social capital

Putnam, Robert D. 2000. Bowling alone. New York: Simon & Schuster.


Survey methodology

Blankenship, A. B. 1977. Listed versus unlisted numbers in telephone-survey samples. Journal of Advertising Research 17:39-42.

Bradburn, Norman M., and Seymour Sudman. Polls and surveys: Understanding what they tell us. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988.

Brick, J. Michael, Joseph Waksberg, Dale Kulp, and Amy Starer. 1995. Bias in list-assisted telephone sample. Public Opinion Quarterly 59:218-35.

Grossman, Randolph, and Douglas Weiland. 1978. The use of telephone directories as a sample frame: Patterns of bias revisited. Journal of Advertising 7:31-36.

Himmelfarb, Harold S., R. Michael Loar, and Susan H. Mott. 1983. Sampling by ethnic surnames: The case of American Jews. Public Opinion Quarterly 47:247-60.

Kish, Leslie. Survey sampling. New York: Wiley, 1965.

Schuman, Howard and Stanley Presser. 1996. Questions & answers in attitude surveys: Experiments on question form, wording, and context. Reprint edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Schuman, Howard, and Jacqueline Scott. 1987. Problems in the use of survey questions to measure public opinion. Science 236:957-59.


Values

Brodie, Mollyann, Claudia Deane, Nina Kjellson, Richard Morin, Robert Blendon, and John Benson. 1999. Value conflicts, party divisions, and policy consequences: The Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University Survey on American Values. Presented at the 1999 annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, St. Petersburg, FL.

 

 

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