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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The American Public In The 1950s -- 3. The Pattern Changes: From The 1950s To The 1970s -- 4. The Decline Of Partisanship -- 5. Generation, Partisan Shift, And Realignment: A Glance Back To The New Deal / Andersen, Kristi -- 6. 11new Issues -- 7. The Level Of Conceptualization -- 8. The Rise Of Issue Consistency -- 9. Issue Consistency: A Closer Look -- 10. The Rise Of Issue Voting -- 11. The Years Before Eisenhower: Looking Backward -- 12. Issues And The Parties: One United, One Divided Against Itself -- 13. The Party Coalitions -- 14. Attitude Change Among Groups -- 15. The Sequence Of Changes -- 16. American Elections: Past And Future -- 17. Candidates And The Electorate -- 18. Issue Voting: A Further Analysis -- 19. From The Past To The Future: Some Speculative Conclusions -- 20. Epilogue 1976 -- Appendices. Index -- Appendix 1. The Data -- Appendix 2a. The Issue Questions Employed In The Analysis Of Attitude Consistency -- Appendix 2b. -- Appendix 2c -- Appendix 2d -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Index Norman H. Nie, John R. Petrocik, Sidney Verba. Mode Of Access: Internet Via World Wide Web. In English.