Chapter 5 Select a Different Chapter Ch.1 Freedom, Order, or Equality? Ch.2 Majoritarian or Pluralist... Ch.3 The Constitution Ch.4 Federalism Ch.5 Public Opinion & Socialization Ch.6 The Media Ch.7 Participation & Voting Ch.8 Political Parties Ch.9 Nominations, Elections, Campaigns Ch.10 Interest Groups Ch.11 Congress Ch.12 The Presidency Ch.13 The Bureaucracy Ch.14 The Courts Ch.15 Order and Civil Liberties Ch.16 Equality and Civil Rights Ch.17 Policymaking Ch.18 Economic Policy Ch.19 Domestic Policy Ch.20 Global Policy Appendices

 

 

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Crosstabs

A Computer Program for Analyzing Political Data

The sidebar on page 154 asks you to use the CROSSTABS program to learn which groups of respondents fall into which type. Go to Houghton Mifflin's CROSSTABS online page to run the program. (Ask your instructor for the appropriate Username and Password to enter.) For this analysis, you'll need to select the VOTERS dataset, which contains data from 1,714 respondents on 80 variables related to voting in the 1996 presidential election.

Insure Everyone Job Government should insure citizens a job, good standard of living "Some people feel the government in Washington should see to it that every person has a job and a good standard of living. [Suppose that these people are at one end of the scale. . . .] Others think the government should just let each person get ahead on his own. [Suppose these people are at the other end. . . .] Where would you place yourself on this scale, or haven't you thought much about this?" Frequency Percent Favor guaranteed job 405 26.1 Undecided 341 22 Get a job yourself 807 52 Data not available 161 missing Abortion How do you feel about laws regulating abortion? "There has been some discussion about abortion during recent years. Which one of the opinions on this page best agrees with your view? You can just tell me the number of the opinion you choose." . . . . "(1) By law, abortion should never be permitted. (2) The law should permit abortion ONLY in case of rape, incest or when the woman's life is in danger. ( 3) The law should permit abortion for reasons OTHER THAN rape, incest or danger to the woman's life, but only after the need for the abortion has been clearly established. (4) By law, a woman should always been able to obtain an abortion as a matter of personal choice." Frequency Percent Never permitted 200 11.9 Rape/incest, life in danger 496 29.5 When need is clear 272 16.2 Always as personal choice 711 42.3 Data not available 35 missing

Figure 5.5 on page 154 refers to The Challenge of Democracy's classification of ideological types as reflected in the IDEAlog computer program. If you didn't refer to IDEAlog program before, perhaps you wish to now. Go to IDEAlog .

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