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  1. Roundtable on Ideational Turns in the Four Subdisciplines of Political Science.Jeffrey Checkel, Jeffrey Friedman, Matthias Matthijs & Rogers Smith - 2016 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 28 (2):171-202.
    ABSTRACTOn September 4, 2015, the Political Epistemology/ideas, Knowledge, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association sponsored a roundtable on ideational turns in the four subdisciplines of political science as part of its annual meetings. Chairing the roundtable was Jeffrey Friedman, Department of Government, University of Texas, Austin. The other participants were Jeffrey Checkel, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University; Matthias Matthijs, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; and Rogers Smith, Department of Political Science, University of (...)
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  • What Nature and Origins Leaves Out.John Zaller - 2012 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 24 (4):569-642.
    The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion synthesizes leading studies of public opinion from the late 1980s in a top-down model of opinion formation and change. The core feature of this synthesis, the Receive-Accept-Sample (RAS) model, remains sound, but the book overstates the importance of the form of public opinion that it explains—elite-induced survey statements of issue positions—and understates the force of opinions that elites cannot easily shape and that citizens may not be able to articulate in response to survey (...)
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  • Beyond Cues and Political Elites: The Forgotten Zaller.Jeffrey Friedman - 2012 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 24 (4):417-461.
    Zaller's Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion initially sets out an epistemic view of politics in which the ultimate determinants of political action are ideas about the society in which we act. These ideas are usually mediated to us by others, so Zaller begins the book by describing its topic as the influence of the media on public opinion, and he includes journalists among the “political elites” who exert this influence (along with politicians, public officials, and experts). But the book (...)
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