Voice of the People - Public Opinion in Pakistan 2007-2008 (Hardcover)

The purpose of this book is to meaningfully discuss what Pakistanis thought as a collectivity about various local and international issues during 2007-08. It covers a diverse range of subjects from democracy, war on terror, to religious inclinations and consumption preferences. Furthermore, it dispels various fallacies about public behaviour for example misconceptions that since the Pakistani public is largely illiterate it is incapable of understanding the complexities of governance or judicious foreign policies, that it approves of wholesale violence in the name of religion, that it is unaware of global climatic changes and is hardly bothered about issues beyond basic necessities. Careful analysis of the data disproves or qualifies these misconceptions which flourish because measuring popular opinion is difficult while passing off unsubstantiated generalizations about an amorphous entity is easy. The only credible method for measuring public opinion is through scientific

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2010
Authors:	Ijaz Shafi Gilani
Dimensions:	227 x 148 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-547510-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Political control & influence > Public opinion & polls Promotions
LSN:	0-19-547510-0
Barcode:	9780195475104

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