1. A message from the editor

   • Long Samuel

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 3

2. Thinking about politics

   • Andre Modigliani
   • William A. Gamson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 30

3. Social constraints in the political arena: A theoretical inquiry into their form and manner

   • Anthony M. Orum

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 52

4. Education and mass belief systems: An extension and some new questions

   • Stephen Earl Bennett
   • Robert Oldendick
   • George F. Bishop

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 72

5. Toward a social indicators model of aggregate American political behavior: 1948–1976

   • David Knoke
   • Anne Macke

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 95

6. Articles to be published in forthcoming issues

   Announcement Pages: 96 - 96