| 1 | Introduction and Overview of the Course |
| Part 1: Preliminaries |
| 2 | The Meaning and Measurement of Public Opinion |
| Part 2: Questions of Competence |
| 3 | Political Ignorance: Causes and Effects |
| 4 | The Search for Overarching Principles: Ideology and Political Reasoning |
| Part 3: Building From the Ground Up: Opinion Ingredients and The Micro-Foundations of Public Preferences |
| 5 | Material Interests (Or Symbolic Politics?) |
| 6 | Groups in American Politics: Us and Them |
| 7 | Principles and Values |
| Part 4: The World Out There: Society and Politics |
| 8 | Social Influence |
| 9 | Framing, Priming and Media Effects |
| 10 | The Miracle of Aggregation and Enlightened Preferences (Is Anyone Right?) |
| 11 | Public Opinion and Public Policy |
| 12 | Public Opinion and Foreign Policy |
| Part 5: Reflections |
| 13 | Final Thoughts: The Place of Public Opinion in Democratic Politics |