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Public Opinion and Policy-Making in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1950

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4 Other American traits include a tendency to swing erratically between optimism and pessimism; an instability in tolerance for cultural differences which stems from a replacement of stable values by slavishness to cultural fashions; a vacillation between over-and under-estimation of our own capacities and those of other peoples.