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 |
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