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Democracy Through Public Opinion
Author | : Harold Dwight Lasswell,Chi omega |
Publsiher | : Menasha, Wis., Banta |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : IND:30000011396433 |
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Public Opinion
Author | : Walter Lippmann |
Publsiher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2022-11-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547389743 |
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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.
Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability
Author | : Vincent L. Hutchings |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2021-02-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780691225661 |
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Much of public opinion research over the past several decades suggests that the American voters are woefully uninformed about politics and thus unable to fulfill their democratic obligations. Arguing that this perception is faulty, Vincent Hutchings shows that, under the right political conditions, voters are surprisingly well informed on the issues that they care about and use their knowledge to hold politicians accountable. Though Hutchings is not the first political scientist to contend that the American public is more politically engaged than it is often given credit for, previous scholarship--which has typically examined individual and environmental factors in isolation--has produced only limited evidence of an attentive electorate. Analyzing broad survey data as well as the content of numerous Senate and gubernatorial campaigns involving such issues as race, labor, abortion, and defense, Hutchings demonstrates that voters are politically engaged when politicians and the media discuss the issues that the voters perceive as important. Hutchings finds that the media--while far from ideal--do provide the populace with information regarding the responsiveness of elected representatives and that groups of voters do monitor this information when "their" issues receive attention. Thus, while the electorate may be generally uninformed about and uninterested in public policy, a complex interaction of individual motivation, group identification, and political circumstance leads citizens concerned about particular issues to obtain knowledge about their political leaders and use that information at the ballot box.
Public Opinion in a Democracy
Author | : George Gallup |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Democracy |
ISBN | : UOM:39015002365735 |
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Degrees of Democracy
Author | : Stuart N. Soroka,Christopher Wlezien |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521868334 |
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This book develops and tests a 'thermostatic' model of public opinion and policy and examines both responsiveness and representation across a range of policy domains in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, concluding that representative democratic government functions surprisingly well.
Democracy Through Public Opinion
Author | : Harold Dwight Lasswell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1252176826 |
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The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media
Author | : Robert Y. Shapiro,Lawrence R. Jacobs |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 804 |
Release | : 2013-05-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780199673025 |
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With engaging new contributions from the major figures in the fields of the media and public opinion The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media is a key point of reference for anyone working in American politics today.
The Capacity To Judge
Author | : Jeffrey L. McNairn |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781442639164 |
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By the mid-nineteenth-century, 'public opinion' emerged as a new form of authority in Upper Canada. Contemporaries came to believe that the best answer to common questions arose from deliberation among private individuals. Older conceptions of government, sociability and the relationship between knowledge and power were jettisoned for a new image of Upper Canada as a deliberative democracy. The Capacity to Judge asks what made widespread public debate about common issues possible; why it came to be seen as desirable, even essential; and how it was integrated into Upper Canada's constitutional and social self-image. Drawing on an international body of literature indebted to Jürgen Habermas and based on extensive research in period newspapers, Jeffrey L. McNairn argues that voluntary associations and the press created a reading public capable of reasoning on matters of state, and that the dynamics of political conflict invested that public with final authority. He traces how contemporaries grappled with the consequences as they scrutinized parliamentary, republican and radical options for institutionalizing public opinion. The Capacity to Judge concludes with a case study of deliberative democracy in action that serves as a sustained defense of the type of intellectual history the book as a whole exemplifies.