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The gender basis of public opinion / Virginia Sapiro and Shauna Shames -- Latino public opinion: identity politics and policy preferences / John A. Garcia -- The ultimate source of political opinions : genes and the environment / John R. Alford and John A. Hibbing -- Public opinion and the Iraq War / Adam Berinsky -- Public opinion, civil liberties, and security in the post-9/11 context / Darren W. Davis -- Race and the formation of attitudes: responses to Hurricane Katrina / Lonna R. Atkeson and Cherie D. Maestas -- The puzzling case of abortion attitudes in the millennial generation / Clyde Wilcox and Patrick Carr -- Is a liberal-conservative identification an ideology? / William G. Jacoby -- Party identification, party polarization, and "conflict extension" in the American electorate / Thomas M. Carsey and Geoffrey C. Layman -- Trust but verify: three lenses on Americans' trust in government / Paul Gronke, James Hicks, and Timothy E. Cook -- The rise and fall of George W. Bush: popular support for the president / Tiffany Harper and Barbara Norrander -- In the court of public opinion: prejudging defendants in terrorism trials ... [et al.].

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