Mobilizing Public Opinion - Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the Civil Rights Era

List of Tables and Figures Introduction 1. Elite Opinion Theory and Activated Mass Opinion 2. Black Insurgency and the Dynamics of Mass Opinion 3. The Sovereign Status of Survey Data 4. Constituency Mail as Public Opinion 5. The Racial, Regional, and Organizational Bases of Mass Activation 6. Contested Meanings and Movement Agency 7. Two Nations, Separate Grooves Appendix One: Question Wording, Scales, and Coding of Variables in Survey Analysis Appendix Two: Bibliographic Sources for Racial Attitude Items, 1937-1965 Appendix Three: Sampling and Coding of Constituency Mail Appendix Four: Typology of Interpretive Frames Notes References Acknowledgments Index

About the author

Taeku Lee is an assistant professor of public policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Summary

Investigating the question of opinion changing attitudes during periods of political unrest, Lee argues that the protests of local, ordinary people pushed demands for social change. His arguments are substantiated with considerable evidence from multiple sources.

Product details

• Authors: Taeku Lee
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2002
• EAN: 9780226470252
• ISBN: 978-0-226-47025-2
• No. of pages: 301
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Studies in Communication, Medi; Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion (CHUP); Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas