Reading Public Opinion - How Political Actors View the Democratic Process

READING PUBLIC OPINION offers a provocative approach for understanding how public opinion fits into the empirical world of politics. Scholar Susan Herbst reveals that how public opinion is actually assessed has little to do with the mass public. Her original and important book forces us to rethink our assumptions about the place of public opinion in contemporary politics.

Summary

Drawing on ideas from political science, sociology and psychology this text explores how three sets of political participants - legislative staffers, political activists and journalists - actually evaluate and assess public opinion.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Herbst, Herbst Susan
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.1998
• EAN: 9780226327471
• ISBN: 978-0-226-32747-1
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 17 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Studies in Communication, Medi; Studies in Communication, Media & Public Opinion; Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion (CHUP); Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Public Opinion & Polls, Public opinion and polls, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Opinion Polling