| A Time of Turmoil: Values and Voting in the 1970's |  | Author: Ronald Stockton
Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr
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Sales Rank: 5326180
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 201
ISBN: 0870132326
Dewey Decimal Number: 324.973092
EAN: 9780870132322
ASIN: 0870132326
Publication Date: May 1983
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An interesting if somewhat dated public opinion study June 11, 1999
This book is based on a series of interviews conducted in a northern inner ring suburb over a ten year period starting in 1974.801 residents were constituted as a "panel" (a public opinion term for people interviewed across time) and were reinterviewed at several points over the decade to trace how their political views evolved. A key finding is that the old issues of economic and social welfare policy that had sustained the Democratic party for nearly four decades were being buffeted by a new focus upon social conflict issues (race, lifestyles, gender issues, crime) and upon the personal qualities of individual candidates. The result was not so much a realignment of parties (a shift from one party to another by blocs of voters) but a de-alignment, in which voters did not have consistent loyalties and were subject to often-unpredictable shifts in their voting behavior. The book has two distinct parts. The first half analyzes the political culture and public opinion patterns within the community. The second half focuses upon an analysis of the elections of 1972 and 1976 and how individual voters shifted between those two elections. There is a short followup on the 1980s, but that analysis was not fully developed in this book. From the point of view of one of the authors, writing in the late 1990s, I would say that for someone interested in the culture and public opinion patterns of an inner ring white suburb, there is still some value in this work. The selected quotes from the people interviewed give an interesting and often colorful perspective on how people were thinking at the time. Probably the voting analysis in the last half of the book would be of less value. Ron Stockton, co-author ps. Amazon would not print this review without a designation of how many "stars" the book deserved. That is not usually how scholars do things, so I gave it a neutral "3."
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