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News reports reveal public dissatisfaction with government and pessimism about American economic prospect; many polls support these conclusions. The authors inspect survey data on attitudes towards government, confidence in institutions, the American dream, and personal prospects and expectations.

This work analyses whether the polls in 1993 and 1994 misled US policy makers about the urgency of health care reform. It reviews the attitudes of Americans about their own health care, their concerns about reform of the system, and the views they hold about the importance of the issue.

This text examines information from surveys of public attitudes to assess people's views about the government's role in reducing income differences between the rich and poor.

In this monograph the authors illuminate the complexity of people's views about abortion, and they show that opinion has been stable since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

How do Americans and Japanese see each other? This book examines American and Japanese public perceptions of economic and military relationships, attitudes towards family, work and women's roles, and satisfaction with democracy. Of special interest to the authors is an idea offered by Alexis de Tocqueville who argued that the whole planet would experience a revolution in which older, hierarchical cultures would be replaced by more egalitarian, individualist, and democratic ones such as that of the United States. The authors believe Japan in moving in this direction, but they reject the notion that the two societies are becoming the same.

News reports reveal public dissatisfaction with government and pessimism about American economic prospect; many polls support these conclusions. The authors inspect survey data on attitudes towards government, confidence in institutions, the American dream, and personal prospects and expectations.

This cursory assessment of the public mod conceals a fascinating story of public opinion about the environment. A wealth of survey questions asked over the past quarter century provides a clear picture of how this issue emerged, rose to prominence, and matured in the public mind.

This work analyses whether the polls in 1993 and 1994 misled US policy makers about the urgency of health care reform. It reviews the attitudes of Americans about their own health care, their concerns about reform of the system, and the views they hold about the importance of the issue.

In this monograph the authors illuminate the complexity of people's views about abortion, and they show that opinion has been stable since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.