THE ANES GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR
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Elections Make the Government Pay Attention  1964-2004


                           '64  '66  '68  '70  '72  '74  '76  '78  '80  '82  '84  '86  '88  '90  '92  '94  '96  '98  '00  '02  '04 
 
                 Not Much    7    9    8    9    8   11   10   10   13   **   20   **   17   **   11   **   15   13   13    9    7 
                     Some   25   25   28   31   36   35   36   32   35   **   37   **   44   **   41   **   42   41   41   40   37 
              A Good Deal   65   62   60   57   55   50   52   56   51   **   42   **   37   **   47   **   42   45   44   51   56 
      Don't Know, Depends    4    4    4    3    2    3    2    2    2   **    1   **    1   **    1   **    0    1    1    0    0
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                       N  1445 1282 1342  830 2184 2509 2399 2290 1407      2243      1767      2246      1498 1277 1543 1318 1059  



PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR
Table 5C.2
Source:  The American National Election Studies



     QUESTION TEXT:

     "And how much do you feel that having elections makes the government
     pay attention to what the people think, a good deal, some or not
     much?"
       


     This question is variable VCF0624 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset.
     Consult the Cumulative Data File codebook for complete question text and annotation.
     Weight variable VCF0010A was used to produce this table (see weight documentation).

     Table generated:  27NOV05