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1 online resource (209 pages) |
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Routledge Communication Series |
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Routledge communication series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Need for a Definition of Public Opinion; A Multidimensional Process; Public Disagreement and Social Dissent; The Idea of Process; Survey Data, Historical Data, and Political Philosophy; Plan of the Book; 1 A Public Opinion Model; A Three-Dimensional Interactive System; The Significance of Multidimensionality; Individual Versus Collective Aspects of Public Opinion; Beyond Reification and Reductionism; 2 The Emergence of Individual Opinions; Reality Worlds and Transactions |
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Situational and Demographic Correlates of OpinionOpinions as Judgmental Outcomes; Opinions and Attitudes; The Process of Opinion Change; Approaches to Studying Attitudinal Change; Learning Theory; Systemic-Cognitive Psychology; Attitudinal-Opinion Change and Direct Experience; The Quality of Individual Opinion; The Role of Communications Media; A Test Case: Presidential Debates; The Collective Mobilization of Individual Opinions; 3 Collective Opinion as a Social Force; Communication and Emergent Collective Opinion; Mutual Awareness; The Reality of Collective Opinion; Self Versus Others |
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Third-Person Effects, Pluralistic Ignorance, and Minority DominanceThird-Person Effects; Pluralistic Ignorance and Minority Dominance; Unvoiced Opinions; Shared Versus Opposing Universes of Discourse; Opinion Leadership; Collective Opinion as a Social Force; Collective Opinion as Process; 4 Effects of Communication Technology; Printing; Long-Distance Communication, Telegraphy, and Advances in Printing; Broadcast Media; New Nonbroadcast Media; Communications in Cyberspace; The Impact of New Technologies; 5 Public Opinion in Nondemocratic Societies; The Legitimization Process |
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Authoritarian Political SystemsSome Historical Manifestations of Authoritarianism; Totalitarianism; The Political Rejection of Collective Opinion in Nondemocracies; 6 Public Opinion in Democracies; The Democratic Faith in Public Opinion; Elitist Versus Populist Conceptions of Democracy; The Elitist View; The Populist View; The Elitist-Populist Struggle in the United States; Survey Research and the Elitist-Populist Controversy; The Gallup Poll; Academic Studies; Interactions between Elite and Non-Elite Opinions; Linking Collective Opinion to Democratic Governance: Voting; Voting Participation |
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Voting ProceduresConfidence in Political Institutions; Maintaining Democratic Linkages between Collective Opinion and Governance; 7 Polls and the Public Opinion Process; Opinion Polls in Nondemocratic States; Franco's Spain; Soviet Union; Communist Eastern Europe; Opinion Polls and Democracy; The Potential Contribution of Polls to Democratic Linkage; 8 A Kaleidoscopic Process; References; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
What is public opinion? How can we best study it? This work presents a ""process model"" that answers these questions by defining public opinion in a way that also identifies an approach to studying it. The model serves as a framework into which the findings of empirical research are integrated, producing a comprehensive understanding of public opinion that encompasses the congeries of middle-range theories that have emerged from empirical research. The three-dimensional process model--and the way it is explicated--satisfies the diverse and sometimes divergent needs and interests of |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Public opinion.
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Public opinion
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136684883 |
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1136684883 |
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