Welcome to Public Opinion Pros An Online Magazine for the Polling Professional (and Everybody Else) March 2006

	FEATURES Short on Confidence: Changes in Attitudes toward American Institutions and Occupations By Richard Seltzer and Rhea Roper-Nedd
	Confidence in American institutions has not rebounded in the nearly twenty years since Lipset and Schneider wrote The Confidence Gap. (more)
	Best Form of Government: The Public Image of the Monarchy in Spain By Juan Díez-Nicolás
	For the majority of Spaniards, the choice is not between monarchy and republic, but between dictatorship and democracy. (more)
	Special Report Memory of the Holocaust: A Seven-Nation Study Part one of a three-part series By Tom W. Smith
	Testimony of the Holocaust is challenged by the passage of time and waning collective memory. (more)
	FROM THE FIELD Can the Supreme Court Lead Public Opinion? A Novel Experiment in Survey Design By Craig Cummings and Robert Y. Shapiro
	Studying elites individually in separate and efficient multiple-ballot experiments can be telling. (more)
	DEPARTMENTS
		From the Editor
		Faded Essence By Lisa Ferraro Parmelee
		Op-Ed
		*Magic Bullet or Chicken Soup? Brokeback Mountain* as a Cure for Sexual Prejudice** By Kenneth Sherrill
		Letters to the Editor
		Public Opinion Pros would like to hear from you.
		In Print
		Incentives for Policy Pandering By Brandice Canes-Wrone
		An excerpt from Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and the Public. (more)
		Links
		A guide to the best of public opinion and polling on the web.