VALUE CHOICES IN
THE MASS PUBLIC
This ongoing project examines citizens' choices among core values like liberty, equality, and economic security (among others). Major objectives include: Determining whether people make consistent, transitive choices among values; testing whether value choices are affected by priming and issue framing; looking for manifestations of individual-level value conflict and ambivalence; testing the impact of values on issue attitudes; and aggregating value choices as an empirical estimate of American political culture.
Jacoby, William G. (2006) "Value Choices and American Public Opinion."
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- Click here for a report that provides supplemental information and analyses pertaining to this paper.
Jacoby, William G. (2006) "Testing for Hierarchical Structure and Priming Effects Among Individual Value Choices."
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Jacoby, William G. and Paul M. Sniderman. (2006) "The Structure of Value Choices in the American Public."
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