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Reading Public Opinion
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Author : Susan Herbst
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1998-10
Reading Public Opinion written by Susan Herbst and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Public opinion is one of the most elusive and complex concepts in democratic theory, and we do not fully understand its role in the political process. Reading Public Opinion offers one provocative approach for understanding how public opinion fits into the empirical world of politics. In fact, Susan Herbst finds that public opinion, surprisingly, has little to do with the mass public in many instances. Herbst draws on ideas from political science, sociology, and psychology to explore how three sets of political participants—legislative staffers, political activists, and journalists—actually evaluate and assess public opinion. She concludes that many political actors reject "the voice of the people" as uninformed and nebulous, relying instead on interest groups and the media for representations of public opinion. Her important and original book forces us to rethink our assumptions about the meaning and place of public opinion in the realm of contemporary democratic politics.
Public Opinion And Propaganda
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Author : Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
language : en
Publisher: Irvington Publishers
Release Date : 1954
Public Opinion And Propaganda written by Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and has been published by Irvington Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Political sociology categories.
Communications And Public Opinion
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Author : Robert O. Carlson
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1975
Communications And Public Opinion written by Robert O. Carlson and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Social Science categories.
Public Opinion
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Author : Walter Lippmann
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-11-13
Public Opinion written by Walter Lippmann and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-13 with Social Science categories.
The book "Public Opinion" is a critical assessment of functional democratic government, especially of the irrational and often self-serving social perceptions that influence individual behavior and prevent optimal societal cohesion. The detailed descriptions of the cognitive limitations people face in comprehending their socio-political and cultural environments leading them to apply an evolving catalogue of general stereotypes to a complex reality, rendered Public Opinion a seminal text in the fields of media studies, political science, and social psychology. Walter Lippmann was an American writer, reporter, and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War, coining the term "stereotype" in the modern psychological meaning, and critiquing media and democracy in his newspaper column and several books.
Voice Of The People
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Author : Reo Millard Christenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Voice Of The People written by Reo Millard Christenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Propaganda categories.
Reading Mixed Signals
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Author : Albert H. Cantril
language : en
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Release Date : 1999-09-16
Reading Mixed Signals written by Albert H. Cantril and has been published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-16 with Political Science categories.
The public policy overviews by Brookings are always among the best, and they are even more valuable this year when several think tanks appear to have defaulted on their traditional role in offering up reviews for consideration by the transition team. Across the various issue areas, including international, social, domestic, and governance policy domains, they present thoughtful recommendations.
Agenda Setting
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Author : David Protess
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-22
Agenda Setting written by David Protess and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The role of the news media in defining the important issues of the day, also known as the agenda-setting influence of mass communication, has received widespread attention over the past 20 years. Since the publication of McCombs and Shaw's seminal empirical study, more than one hundred journal articles and monographs have appeared. This collection exemplifies the major phases of research on agenda-setting: tests of the basic hypothesis, contingent conditions affecting the strength of this influence, the natural history of public issues, mass media influence on public policy, and the role of external sources from the president to public relations staffs on the news agenda.
Public Opinion And Propaganda
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Author : Daniel Katz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Public Opinion And Propaganda written by Daniel Katz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with categories.
Public Opinion
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Author : Vincent Price
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Release Date : 1992-06-16
Public Opinion written by Vincent Price and has been published by SAGE Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-06-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
What is perhaps most amazing about this little book is its comprehensiveness. In little more than a 100 pages, Price manages to discuss the relevance of ′public opinion′ to just about every major mass communication theory. . . . The reference list alone would be a valuable resource for anyone studying public opinion. . . . Price does a stellar job of explaining in easy-to-understand language what most of these references have to say about public opinion. . . . The two greatest contributions of the book are Price′s organization of the vast literature on public opinion, coupled with his distillation of major works, including some truly hefty tomes, into a few simple words. Those who have grappled with the thoughts of Habermas and Blumer, for example, will greatly appreciate Price′s succinct and insightful descriptions of the relevance of these difficult works to the study of public opinion. Another strong point is the book′s currency: while you will find references to works published in the 1920s, you also will find books, articles, and reports published in the 1990s. . . . If you are new to the study of public opinion and communication, this book is the most painless, yet valuable introduction I can recommend. If you think you already know a lot about public opinion, the book may be even more valuable: it may dispel you of the notion that anyone knows a lot about public opinion." --Journalism Quarterly Public opinion--is it a simple aggregation of individual views, or instead some kind of collective-level, emergent product of debate and discussion? What is the role of public opinion in popular government? How do the mass media shape public opinion, or link it to governmental decision-making? Price′s Public Opinion explores such questions by tracing the historical development and application of the concept of public opinion. It examines the concept′s origins in Enlightenment thought and follows its evolution as a tool for social-scientific research. Intended as a map of the sprawling research terrain, Public Opinion introduces the conceptual mechanisms underlying public opinion research and shows how these concepts are used in an attempt to resolve enduring theoretical, normative, and practical questions. Because public opinion is one of the most vital and enduring concepts in the social sciences, this book will enjoy wide application in psychology, sociology, political science, journalism, and communication research in both academic and applied settings.
Politicians Reading Of Public Opinion And Its Biases
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Author : Stefaan Walgrave
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-15
Politicians Reading Of Public Opinion And Its Biases written by Stefaan Walgrave and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-15 with Political Science categories.
Examining a central assumption widely accepted as being crucial in making democracy work - that politicians form a more or less accurate image of public opinion and take that perception into account when representing citizens - Politicians' Reading of Public Opinion and its Biases presents a paradox of representation. On the one hand, politicians invest enormously in reading public opinion. They are committed to finding out what the people want and public opinion is a key consideration in many of their undertakings. Yet, on the other hand, politicians' perceptions of public opinion are surprisingly inaccurate. Politicians are hardly better at estimating public opinion than ordinary citizens are. Their perceptions are distorted by social projection, in the sense that politicians' own opinion affects their estimations, and on top of that, there seems to be a systematic right-wing bias in these perceptions. The findings imply that one of the main paths to responsive policy-making is flawed. Even though politicians do the best they can to learn about people's preferences, skewed perceptions put them on the wrong track. From a democratic perspective, the central findings of the book are quite sobering. The high hopes that many authors had with regard to politicians' ability to adequately 'consult' or 'sense' public opinion appear to be vain. The book puts forward a plausible driver of the slippage between the public and politics. Politicians are less responsive to people's preferences than they could be, not because they do not want to be responsive but because they base themselves on erroneous public opinion perceptions.