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Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2006

William G. Jacoby
Affiliation:
Michigan State University

Extract

Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics. By James A. Stimson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 206p. $55.00 cloth, $16.99 paper.

The main goal of James A. Stimson's book is to show how the dynamics of public opinion impinge on the the American political process. This is a broad and potentially difficult task, particularly for such a succinct text. Nevertheless, I believe the book achieves its objectives quite convincingly.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: AMERICAN POLITICS
Copyright
© 2006 American Political Science Association

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