CHRIS MOONEY has a new book out, "The Republican Mind" (here's a brief essay-length version of the thesis), that looks from a frankly liberal standpoint at evidence that conservatives and liberals tend to have different character types and different attitudinal approaches to reality.
Dunnhumby is trying to overlay attitudinal research on top of purchasing data to understand why people buy things as well as what they buy.
But how fair is this?Dylan Matthews offers a useful overview of the political-science literature on the "attitudinal model" of judicial decision-making.
Here we have the attitudinal theory at work.
These voters are by definition typical of the long-term attitudinal trends affecting the British electorate, and well disposed towards Labour.
However, Scott Lemieux points out some important limitations of the attitudinal model:[I]t's worth noting that the model only applies to Supreme Court votes on the merits.
And the cheapest solution is merely an attitudinal one: all Spaniards should treat Galician, Basque and Catalan not as regional languages.
If you look at it as a case about federalism, the attitudinal model gets 7 of the 9 votes on Raich right; if you look it as a case of whether the federal government should strictly enforce anti-marijuana statutes, it arguably gets 7 of 9 votes wrong.
"I don't understand why we invested so much in a hardware-based response when it seemed quite obvious that the key things were behavioural, and attitudinal and educational … That has basically been proven because, by the time all these clinics became operational, they weren't needed".
Those Ipsos Mori surveys, which included conventional opinion polling, focus groups, and qualitative attitudinal research into how voters behaved, had tracked the rising support for yes since chancellor George Osborne's currency zone veto in early 2014.
Popular culture has been a driving force behind attitudinal shifts around gay men and lesbians and gay rights, and the pace of change has been faster than during the civil rights or women's rights movements, said Anna Greenberg, a pollster who tracks gay rights issues for the Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group.
