Contents

Preface     v

On Behalf of an Experimental Political Science
Donald R. Kinder and Thomas R. Palfrey     1

1. The Meaning and Measurement of Public Opinion

Coming to Grips with the Holy Ghost
Donald R. Kinder     43

Survey-Based Experiments on White Racial Attitudes towards Residential Integration
Howard Schuman and Lawrence Bobo     53

Ideological Constraint in the Mass Public: A Methodological Critique and Some New Findings
John L. Sullivan, James E. Piereson, and George E. Marcus     79

A Partisan Schema for Political Information Processing
Milton Lodge and Ruth Hamill     97

2. Political Choice

Rational and Not-So-Rational Processes in Judgment and Choice
Donald R. Kinder     119

Keeping the Voter's Limits in Mind: A Cognitive Process Analysis of Decision-Making in Voting
John A. Herstein     129

Contrasting Rational and Psychological Analyses of Political Choice
George A. Quattrone and Amos Tversky     159

Coping With Complexity: An Experimental Study of Public Policy Decision-Making
Janet A. Weiss     185

3. Collective Action

The Conflict between Private Incentives and the Common Good
Thomas R. Palfrey     211

An Experimental Examination of Auction Mechanisms for Discrete Public Goods
John A. Ferejohn, Robert Forsythe, Roger G. Noll, and Thomas R. Palfrey     221

Organizing Groups for Collective Action
Robyn M. Dawes, John M. Orbell, Randy T. Simmons, and Alphons J.C. van de Kragt     245

Divergent Evidence on Free Riding: An Experimental Examination of Possible Explanations
R. Mark Isaac, James M. Walker, and Susan H. Thomas     265

4. Information and Democracy

Signal and Noise in Democratic Conversation
Thomas R. Palfrey and Donald R. Kinder     305

Experimental Demonstrations of the "Not-So-Minimal" Consequences of Television News Programs
Shanto Iyengar, Mark D. Peters, and Donald R. Kinder     313

Information and Elections: Retrospective Voting and Rational Expectations
Richard D. McKelvey and Peter C. Ordeshook     333

Baby Books and Ballots: The Impact of Congressional Mail on Constituent Opinion
Albert D. Cover and Bruce S. Brumberg     363

5. Institutional Rules and Procedures

Agendas and Decisions in Government
Thomas R. Palfrey     389

Committee Decisions under Majority Rule: An Experimental Study
Morris P. Fiorina and Charles R. Plott     399

Bureaucratic Agenda Control: Imposition or Bargaining?
Cheryl L. Eavey and Gary J. Miller     435

Agenda Influence and Its Implications
Michael E. Levine and Charles R. Plott     461

Contributors     497