Reading Public Opinion

How Political Actors View the Democratic Process

Susan Herbst author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Published:12th Oct '98

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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.

ISBN: 9780226327471

Dimensions: 23mm x 17mm x 2mm

Weight: 454g

266 pages