Polls and the Awareness of Public Opinion

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Leo 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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