Polls and the Awareness of Public OpinionLeo Bogart Transaction Publishers - 264 من الصفحات How well can polls measure public opinion? Should government policies follow majority opinion? Do polls influence elections? Can there be polls under a dictatorship? Recent elections throughout the world have made these issues ever more crucial. "Polls and the Awareness of Public Opinion, "initially published under the title "Silent Politics, "is the first book to look upon polls and the awareness of poll results as forces that influence public opinion. It is a penetrating assessment of the uses of polls, their misuses, and the absurdities carried out in their name. Bogart argues that predictions based on polls can be misleading since they reflect a transient stage in a public opinion that is constantly and often rapidly changing. |
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Should Polls Make Policy? | 3 |
Polling and the Concept of Opinion | 14 |
Reporting the Polls | 21 |
On Predicting Elections | 25 |
Polls and the Campaign of 1968 | 33 |
OPINION RESEARCH AND PUBLIC POLICY | 43 |
Leadership and Public Opinion | 45 |
Defining Priorities | 55 |
AMBIGUOUS OPINIONS | 127 |
The Causes of Inconsistency | 129 |
Private Opinions and Public Roles | 140 |
UNHEARD OPINIONS | 149 |
Acquiescence and Feedback | 151 |
Opinion Under Proletarian Dictatorship | 161 |
Is There a World Public Opinion? | 167 |
OPINIONS IN REVOLUTION | 175 |
The Opinion Constituency | 62 |
THE MOVEMENT OF OPINION | 73 |
Public Opinion Trends | 75 |
A Case History | 89 |
HOW OPINIONS CHANGE | 97 |
Information Opinion and Action | 99 |
Persuasion Debate and Discussion | 104 |
Changing Ones Mind | 111 |
Forcing Social Change | 177 |
Shocking Opinions | 185 |
OPINIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES | 195 |
Opinions and Responsibilities | 197 |
NOTES | 209 |
ADDENDA TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION | 239 |
INDEX | 253 |
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الصفحة 47 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
الصفحة 185 - Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
الصفحة 145 - And a further reason for caution, in this respect, might be drawn from the reflection that we are not always sure that those who advocate the truth are influenced by purer principles than their antagonists.
الصفحة 47 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
الصفحة 111 - And own stale nonsense which they ne'er invent. Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men. Of all this servile herd, the worst is he That in proud...
الصفحة 185 - If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
الصفحة 106 - The reason of man, like man himself, is timid and cautious when left alone, and acquires firmness and confidence in proportion to the number with which it is associated.
الصفحة 47 - Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.
الصفحة 211 - Angus Campbell, Philip E. Converse, Warren E. Miller, and Donald E. Stokes, The American Voter (New York: John Wiley, 1960); and Angus Campbell, Philip E.
الصفحة 80 - For while such a cleavage was genuine and intense, as some of our earlier data have witnessed, one of the most important yet hidden lines of cleavage split the younger generation itself. Although privileged young college students angry at Vietnam and the shabby treatment of the Negro saw themselves as sallying forth to do battle against a corrupted and cynical older generation, a more head-on confrontation at the polls, if a less apparent one, was with their own age mates who had gone from high school...