Entry:

Ladd, Everett Carll, "Politics in the 80's: An Electorate at Odds with Itself," Public Opinion, 5 (December/January, 1983), 2-5.


Abstract:

The American public displays diverse, even contradictory views, on priorities for the government, thus failing to embrace wholeheartedly any single ideological position.

GSS Years:

1972-82

Other Data Sets:

CBS/NYT 1982; NBC/AP 1983; Roper 1981; LAT 1982

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
ABANY

ABORTION IF WOMAN WANTS FOR ANY REASON

PREMARSX

SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE

FEPRES

VOTE FOR WOMAN PRESIDENT

FEWORK

SHOULD WOMEN WORK

CAPPUN

FAVOR OR OPPOSE DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER