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Navigating public opinion : polls, policy, and the future of American democracy / edited by Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook, Benjamin I. Page

Cook, Fay Lomax ; Manza, Jeff ; Page, Benjamin I.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2002

Online-Ressource (xvi, 376 p) : ill

Englisch

Contents; Contributors; Navigating Public Opinion: An Introduction; PART I. DOES POLICY RESPONSIVENESS EXIST?; PART II. HOW POLITICAL ELITES USE PUBLIC OPINION; PART III. MEASURING PUBLIC OPINION; PART IV. CONCLUSION; References; Index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-372) and index

Print version: Navigating Public Opinion : Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy

0-19-514934-3 ; 0-19-514933-5 ; 978-0-19-514934-0

978-0-19-514933-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

HN90.P8

303.380973     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Public opinion -- United States ; Public opinion polls

Public opinion ; United States ; Public opinion polls ; Electronic books

Do politicians listen to the public? How often and when? Or are the views of the public manipulated or used strategically by political and economic elites? Navigating Public Opinion brings together leading scholars of American politics to assess and debate these questions. It describes how the relationship between opinion and policy has changed over time; how key political actors use public opinion to formulate domestic and foreign policy; and how new measurement techniques might improve our understanding of public opinion in contemporary polling and survey research. The distinguished contribu