Entry:

Ladd, Everett Carll and Lipset, Seymour, Martin, "Public Opinion and Public Policy," in The United States in the 1980s, Peter Duignan and Alvin Rabushka (eds.), Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980, 49-84.

Abstract:

Although American political behavior is often strongly influenced by unpredictable events, in the 1980s the trends toward economic and social liberalism will continue and will be operationalized, despite the continuing trends toward distrust of government and other institutions.

1973-78

Other Data Sets:

Yankelovich 1978; Gallup 1936, 1937, 1955, 1958, 1960, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1977, 1978 (3); CBS/NYT 1978 (2), 1979 (2); Roper 1939, 1978, 1979; Harris 1966, 1970 1971, 1973-76, 1977 (2), 1978, 1979; SRC 1958, 1964, 1968, 1970, 1972-74, 1976, 1978; ORC 1946, 1962, 1977