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Tables ix
Chapter 1 Public Opinion and Politics 1
Contradictory Models of Political Attitudes 2
How Alabamians View Their Public Officials 5
Organization of the Book 10
Chapter 2 Support for Constitutional Reform 13
Moderate Support for Rewriting the Alabama State Constitution 14
Stereotypes of Who Supports and Opposes Constitutional Revision 15
Actual Influences on Attitudes about Constitutional Revision 16
Assessing the Simultaneous Effects of the Explanatory Items: The Centrality of the Governmental Activism Dimension 19
Attitudes about Home Rule 20
Public Opinion about Constitutional Reform 23
Chapter 3 Views about the Role of Government 25
Somewhat Contradictory Positions on Tax Issues 25
How Alabamians Divide on Tax Burden and Tax Policy: Support for the Anti-Tax Economic Stress Model 28
The Complex Cleavages over Governor Riley's Tax Referendum 32
Alabamians' Evident Desire for State Services 34
How Alabamians Divide on Government Services: The Prevalence of the Standard Ideological Model 38
The Contradictory Implications of Alabamians' Views about the Role of Government 41
Chapter 4 More Specific Views about Social Services 43
Alabamians' Views on Public Education: Concerns about Both Quality and Traditional Values 43
How Alabamians Divide on Education: Different Dynamics for Different Issues 46
Alabamians' Views about Health Care: Is the Glass Partially Empty or Partially Full? 51
How Alabamians' Divide on Health Care: Medical Problems over Ideology 54
The Conundrum about Education and Health Care in Alabama 57
Chapter 5 Religion and Public Life 61
Alabamians' Views on Religion and Politics: Quite Conservative but with a Couple of Caveats 61
How Alabamians Divide on the Role of Religion in Public Life: Clearly a Cultural Issue 63
A Resistance to Overpoliticizing Some Religious Issues? 67
Religion and Political Life in Alabama 70
Chapter 6 Views about Crime and Immigration 71
Alabamians' Views about Crime: Significant but Not Overwhelming Concern 71
How Alabamians Divide on Crime: An Absence of Significant Relationships 73
Strong Concern over Illegal Immigration 76
Why Alabamians Differ about Illegal Immigration: General Support for the Cultural Issues Ideological Model 81
Immigration and Crime as Issues in Alabama 83
Chapter 7 Public Opinion in Alabama and the United States: Defying the Stereotypes 85
What Do Alabamians Want? 85
The Similar Dynamics in U.S. Public Opinion 90
Public Opinion and the Polarization of U.S. Politics 96
Index 99
About the Authors 101
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