Numbered Voices - How Opinion Polling Has Shaped American Politics

Preface Introduction 1: Quantification and Rationality 2: Numbers and Symbolic Politics 3: Techniques of Opinion Expression and Measurement 4: Partisan Politics and the Symbolic Use of Straw Polls, 1856-1936 5: Congressmen, Journalists, and Opinion Assessment, 1930-1950 6: Contemporary Public Opinion Research 7: Crowd Estimation and Public Opinion 8: Opinion Quantification and Democracy Notes BibliographyIndex

Summary

This study demonstrates that the way public opinion is measured affects the use that voters, legislators, and journalists make of it. It explores the history of public opinion in the United States from the mid-19th century to the present day in order to assess the workings of US politics.

Product details

• Authors: HERBST, Susan Herbst
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.1995
• EAN: 9780226327433
• ISBN: 978-0-226-32743-3
• No. of pages: 235
• Dimensions: 217 mm x 143 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 336 g
• Series: American Politics & Political Economy S.; American Politics & Political; American Politics & Political Economy S.; American Politics/Political Economy Series Appe (CHUP); American Politics and Political Economy Series
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas