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Public Opinion and Policy-Making in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Jerome S. Bruner
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World Politics , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , July 1950 , pp. 560 - 570
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1950

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1 SirAngell, Norman, Let the People Know, New York, Viking, 1943, p. 15.Google Scholar

2 Markel, Lester, et al., Public Opinion and Foreign Policy, New York, Harper, 1949, p. 9.Google Scholar

3 Bailey, Thomas A., The Man in the Street, New York, Macmillan, 1948.Google Scholar

4 Other American traits include a tendency to swing erratically between optimism and pessimism; an instability in tolerance for cultural differences which stems from a replacement of stable values by slavishness to cultural fashions; a vacillation between over-and under-estimation of our own capacities and those of other peoples.