Mass Informed Consent - Evidence on Upgrading Democracy With Polls and New Media

Informationen zum Autor By Adam F. Simon Klappentext Today's politics features a wealth of public opinion polling, but at the cost of suspicion and skepticism. Using recent, hot-button issues as case studies, Adam Simon discusses the science of polling in today's politics, laying the fundamentals of public opinion research, and advocating that poll results meet the standard for mass informed consent and should play a larger role. Mass Informed Consent will be of special interest to students of public opinion, political behavior, media and politics, interest group politics, and political communication Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Who deserves the blame for Invading Iraq (and Other Mistakes)? Chapter 2: The Yes, No and Don't Knows of Political Polling Chapter 3: Gently Introducing Science, Starring the Median Voter Model and a Test of Citizens' Independence Chapter 4: Why Do Americans Favor Some Things yet Oppose Others? And, Explaining Republican Success against Partial Birth Abortion Chapter 5: Questions Are Just as Important as Answers, Particularly in a Study of Public Opinion on the Iraq Invasion Chapter 6: Debunking Manipulation Myths, Featuring the Infamous Harry and Louise Chapter 7: Political Reforms and Thoughts on Media Old and New Chapter 8 Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Adam Simon, Adam F Simon, Adam F. Simon, Simon Adam F.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2011
• EAN: 9780742562554
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-6255-4
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political structures: democracy, Political structures / systems: democracy