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Public Schools and the American Dream
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Should the Mass Public Follow Elite Opinion? It Depends …
John Zaller’s finding that members of the public usually follow elites’ cues may seem normatively disturbing. If true, it might be taken to obviate the need for democracy or to show that elites are manipulating the public.
However, as long as the public sometimes fails to follow elites, we can judge cases of public followership according to independent criteria, such as whether the public’s occasional rebellions against elite opinion further liberal-democratic or utilitarian purposes. A review of some prominent cases of mass followership of and mass divergence from elite opinion suggests that public opinion that is independent of elite leadership is neither an unmitigated good nor an unmitigated problem for a well-ordered polity.African and African American Studie
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The Political Contingency of Public Opinion, or What Shall We Make of the Declining Faith of Middle-Class African Americans?
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Looking Ahead: Racial Trends in the United States
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Race, Class, and American Polarities
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Practical Politics and Voice and Equality
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Three Puzzles in Search of an Answer From Political Scientists (With Apologies to Pirandello)
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Dimensions of Liberal Self-Satisfaction: Civil Liberties, Liberal Theory, and Elite-Mass Differences
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