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The misunderstood public opinion of James Bryce
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Public opinion polls have appeared in newpapers since the 1930s, and George Gallup relied on the thinking of James Bryce to link such polling to democracy. However, using Bryce's work to make this link demonstrates a misunderstanding of it. While Gallup argured that common men were wise, Bryce argured men were stratified by race and ordered by rank in their ability to reason and govern. Thus, be advocated extending the influence of an elite few to the masses in order to moderate the dangers o...
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The role of public opinion in policy argument: an examination of public opinion rhetoric in the federal budget process.
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; Public opinion holds great importance in democracies because a democracy, by its very definition, connotes a form of government that is responsive to the people (Williams & Edy, 1999). Alluding to such importance, Mill (1859/1975) observed the ascendancy of public opinion in modern democracies
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; In Ecological Literary Criticism (1994) Karl Kroeber coins the phrase population thinking to describe an imaginative capacity to think in terms of populations that is, he argues, shared by such different Romantic thinkers as Percy Bysshe Shelley and Thomas Malthus (82-83). Population thinking is a
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Public Opinion
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
; Glynn, Carroll J.; Herbst, Susan; O'Keefe, Garrett J.; & Shapiro, Robert Y. (1999). Public Opinion. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 471pp. Paperback $25. Hardcover $69. With the proliferation of partisan and non-partisan opinion polls during election campaigns, it seems appropriate that a
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Books -- Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent by Theodore L. Glasser and Charles T. Salmon
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; * Glasser, Theodore L. and Charles T. Salmon (1995). Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent. New York: The Guilford Press. 475 pp. Paperback, $24.95. Hardback, $49.95 Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent is an excellent assemblage of essays covering a broad spectrum of
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"America Speaks": George Gallup's First Syndicated Public Opinion Poll
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; George Gallup said the creation of public opinion polling grew from his experience in journalism, an encounter with electoral politics, and his training in applied psychology, and the goals of polling were to make audible the voice of the common man and bring science to democracy. This article,
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Presidential Studies Quarterly
; The connection between presidential policy rhetoric and public preferences is critical to democratic government, especially if policy rhetoric potentially slips into noncongruence or misrepresentation (Jacobs and Shapiro 2000). Scholars have adeptly documented the use and evaluation of public
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Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process
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; ... Illinois state legislature staffers, 10 party activists drawn randomly from lists of convention delegations, and 11 journalists from news services or major newspapers that covered Illinois politics. In addition, she used survey data of more that 500 Democratic and ...
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Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy.(Book Review)
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; Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy. Edited by Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook, and Benjamin I. Page. Oxford University Press, 2002. 376 pp. Cloth, $65.00. Does public opinion count with regard to policymaking? And how is it counted? Do politicians and policy
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East European Quarterly
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