Cal Clark is professor of political science and the director of the MPA Program at Auburn University. Don-Terry Veal is director of Auburn University's Center for Governmental Services.

• Part 1 Chapter 1Chapter 2 Public Opinion and PoliticsChapter 3 Contradictory Models of Political AttitudesChapter 4 How Alabamians View Their Public OfficialsChapter 5 Organization of the BookPart 6 Chapter 2Chapter 7 Support for Constitutional ReformChapter 8 Moderate Support for Rewriting the Alabama State ConstitutionChapter 9 Stereotypes of Who Supports and Opposes Constitutional RevisionChapter 10 Actual Influences on Attitudes about Constitutional RevisionChapter 11 Assessing the Simultaneous Effects of the Explanatory Items: The Centrality of the Government Activism DimensionChapter 12 Attitudes about Home RuleChapter 13 Public Opinion about Constitutional ReformPart 14 Chapter 3Chapter 15 Views about the Role of GovernmentChapter 16 Somewhat Contradictory Positions on Tax IssuesChapter 17 How Alabamians Divide on Tax Burden and Tax Policy: Support for the Anti-Tax Economic Stress ModelChapter 18 The Complex Cleavages over Governor Riley's Tax ReferendumChapter 19 Alabamians' Evident Desire for Public ServicesChapter 20 How Alabamians Divide on Government Services: The Prevalence of the Standard Ideological ModelChapter 21 The Contradictory Implications of Alabamians' Views about Public ServicesPart 22 Chapter 4Chapter 23 More Specific Views about Social ServicesChapter 24 Alabamians' Views on Public Education: Concerns about Both Quality and Traditional ValuesChapter 25 How Alabamians Divide on Education: Different Dynamics for Different IssuesChapter 26 Alabamians' Views about Health Care: Is the Glass Partially Empty or Partially Full?Chapter 27 How Alabamians' Divide on Health Care: Medical Problems over IdeologyChapter 28 The Conundrum about Education and Health Care in AlabamaPart 29 Chapter 5Chapter 30 Religion and Public LifeChapter 31 Alabamians Views on Religion and Politics: Quite Conservative But with a Couple of CaveatsChapter 32 How Alabamians Divide on the Role of Religion in Public Life: Clearly a Cultural IssueChapter 33 A Resistance to Over-Politicizing Some Religious Issues?Chapter 34 Religion and Political Life in AlabamaPart 35 Chapter 6Chapter 36 Views about Crime and ImmigrationChapter 37 Alabamians' Views about Crime: Significant But Not Overwhelming ConcernChapter 38 How Alabamians Divide on Crime: An Absence of Significant RelationshipsChapter 39 Strong Concern over Illegal ImmigrationChapter 40 Why Alabamians Differ about Illegal Immigration: General Support for the Cultural Issues Ideological ModelChapter 41 Immigration and Crime as Issues in AlabamaPart 42 Chapter 7Chapter 43 Public Opinion in Alabama and the United States: Defying the StereotypesChapter 44 What Do Alabamians Want?Chapter 45 The Similar Dynamics in U.S. Public OpinionChapter 46 Public Opinion and the Polarization of U.S. PoliticsChapter 47 About the Authors

Using a wealth of data, Clark and Veal offer a new thematic model examining public opinion in Alabama. Topics include, religion, crime, education, immigration and health care. The book is an excellent state level examination of public opinion in Alabama and an excellent addition to the literature. The book would be quite useful in courses on public opinion, political behavior, and southern politics.