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Reading Public Opinion
Susan Herbst
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Description for Reading Public Opinion
Paperback. Drawing on ideas from political science, sociology and psychology this text explores how three sets of political participants - legislative staffers, political activists and journalists - actually evaluate and assess public opinion. Series: Studies in Communication, Media & Public Opinion. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 line drawings, 6 tables. BIC Classification: JPA; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 376.
Drawing on ideas from political science, sociology and psychology this text explores how three sets of political participants - legislative staffers, political activists and journalists - actually evaluate and assess public opinion. The text gives one approach to understanding how public opinion fits into the empirical world of politics and finds that it has little to do with the mass public. Concluding 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.
Drawing on ideas from political science, sociology and psychology this text explores how three sets of political participants - legislative staffers, political activists and journalists - actually evaluate and assess public opinion. The text gives one approach to understanding how public opinion fits into the empirical world of politics and finds that it has little to do with the mass public. Concluding 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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Communication, Media & Public Opinion
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226327471
SKU
V9780226327471
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