Political scientists pay too little attention to the role that government can play in influencing public opinion. This paper examines the single most dramatic instance of public opinion leadership on a prominent health care issue: the 1964 Surgeon General's report on smoking, and its impact on...

Extant literature shows that the public has great influence over policy making and resulting law. Yet survey research on Americans' attitudes towards health care has very mixed results. The Deliberative Poll® was developed to remedy problems in traditional polling techniques: citizens are...

The majority of studies investigating the determinants of public support for international economic and political integration have primarily focused on citizen attitudes in European Union member-states and candidate countries. This body of research has found, by and large, that the intensity of...

In recent years, abortion has become a salient issue in Mexican politics. In this study, we intend to use data from the World Values Surveys to acertain the correlates of attitudes toward abortion among Mexican mass publics. We will examine the effects of attitudinal variables (respect for life,...