American Political Development

The Nature of Belief Systems brings back into print Philip E. Converse’s classic 1964 paper on mass political ignorance. Converse’s paper is followed by reflections on the subsequent years of research and on their empirical, normative, and research implications by leading scholars of public opinion,..

The Nature of Belief Systems brings back into print Philip E. Converse’s classic 1964 paper on mass political ignorance. Converse’s paper is followed by reflections on the subsequent years of research and on their empirical, normative, and research implications by leading scholars of public opinion,..