Public Opinion and American Democracy

Journal Article Public Opinion and American Democracy Get access Robert Y. Shapiro Robert Y. Shapiro * ROBERT Y. SHAPIRO is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a Faculty Fellow at its Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, New York, NY, USA. The author thanks Chris Wlezien and Paul Burstein for their recent reviews and communications, and the editors for their comments and suggestions. He also benefited from discussions, recent work, or other assistance from Frank Newport, Larry Jacobs, Ben Page, Bob Erikson, Paul Quirk, Greg Shaw, Susan Herbst, Cliff Zukin, Jason Barabas, Elizabeth Brown, Stuart Soroka, Lucas Guttenberg, Alissa Stollwerk, Tony Daniel, Ester Fuchs, Jeff Lax, Justin Phillips, Andrew Gelman, James Gibson, Diane Heith, Tom W. Smith, and Tiffany Washburn *Address correspondence to Robert Y. Shapiro, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, 7th Floor, International Affairs Bldg., 420 W. 118th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA, Mail Code 3320; e-mail: rys3@columbia.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 75, Issue 5, Special Issu 2011, Pages 982–1017, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfr053 Published: 01 December 2011