Public Opinion And Regime Change

Arthur H. Miller, William M. Reisinger, Vicki L. Hesli

• Introduction -- Conducting Public Opinion Research in the Soviet Union -- Polling and Perestroika -- Public Opinion Research in the Soviet Union: Problems and Possibilities -- How Citizens Relate to Politics: Individuals, Groups, and the Political System -- Foreword to Part Two: Social Change and Soviet Public Opinion -- An Emerging Civic Culture? Ideology, Public Attitudes, and Political Culture in the Early 1990s -- Emerging Democratic Values in Soviet Political Culture -- In Search of Regime Legitimacy -- The Center-Periphery Debate: Pressures for Devolution Within the Republics -- New Forms of Political Participation -- Public Opinion and the Emergence of a Multi-Party System -- Afterword to Part Two: Agendas—Researching the Emerging Political Cultures -- Public Opinion and the Economy -- Perestroika and the Public: Citizens' Views of the "Fruits" of Economic Reform -- Twelve Percent of Hope: Economic Consciousness and a Market Economy -- Public Opinion and Foreign Policy -- Threat Perceptions -- Intergenerational Differences in Attitudes Toward Foreign Policy -- Conclusions: Mass Public Opinion and the Study of Post-Soviet Societies -- Appendix