Narrowing the Confidence Gap
Arthur Miller, in Public Owinion (June-Julv Pn,Ac,-AmAnfl 1983), American ~nterprise ~nstitute for
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Beginning in 1964, public opinion surveys show, the average Ameri- can's confidence in the federal government began a long downhill slide. But that trend may now have reversed.
According to Miller, director of Michigan's Institute for Social Re- search, biennial opinion polls conducted the Institute show that...