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Loading... Mass Informed Consent: Evidence on Upgrading Democracy with Polls and New Mediaby Adam F. Simon
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Public opinion polling permeates today's politics, yet many seem suspicious of polls and skeptical in their prominence, fearing that overreliance on public opinion amounts to pandering or that pollsters can manipulate a feeble public. In this book Adam Simon argues that democracy requires that government listen to the public and that sample surveys are the finest democratic technology yet devised. He lays out the fundamentals of public opinion research and illustrates his discussion of the science of polling with recent political hot button issues as case studies-the decision to invade Iraq, p No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)303.3Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Social Processes Coordination and control ; PowerLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |