23rd Precinct or The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion

23rd Precinct: The Job

Author: Arlene Schulman

Arlene Schulman spent two years documenting New York's 23rd Precinct, going out on patrol in one of the toughest neighborhoods in the city: East Harlem. 23rd Precinct: The Job offers a revelatory look at the men and women policing and experiencing an inner city precinct.

Table of Contents:

	Along for the Ride	1
	Tour	7
	By the Book	31
	Dicks and Vics	49
	Down and Dirty	71
	Jobbed	79
	Police Woman	97
	The Numbers Racket	117
	Midnights	125
	Another Day in Paradise	141
	One Size Fits All	149
	Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Shelter	155
	While Under the Influence	177
	Guns and Noses	185
	Quality of Strife	193
	Lowlife	205
	Dime	213

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The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion

Author: John R Zaller

In this book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory in order to explain the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including both domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and presidential approval, as well as voting behavior in U.S. House, Senate and Presidential elections. Particularly perplexing characteristics of public opinion are also examined, such as the high degree of random fluctuations in political attitudes observed in opinion surveys and the changes in attitudes due to minor changes in the wording of survey questions.