PSC 519 - Public Opinion

(4 credits)

Prerequisite(s): Grad course eligibility for undergraduates: credits earned greater than or equal to 144 and gpa 2.75 OR level is graduate. Role of public opinion in democratic theory, methods and problems of polling and survey research; nature, formation, distribution, and learning of political attitudes; issues of democratic stability; group opnions, voting behavior, and elite behavior, and their impact on the policy-making process, public polity, and the quality of American democracy.

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