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Reading Public Opinion (Paperback, New)
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Reading Public Opinion (Paperback, New)
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Public opinion is one of the most elusive and complex concepts in
democratic theory, and we do not fully understand its role in the
political process. "Reading Public Opinion" offers one provocative
approach for understanding how public opinion fits into the
empirical world of politics. In fact, Susan Herbst finds that
public opinion, surprisingly, has little to do with the mass public
in many instances.
Herbst draws on ideas from political science, sociology, and
psychology to explore how three sets of political
participants--legislative staffers, political activists, and
journalists--actually evaluate and assess public opinion. She
concludes that many political actors reject "the voice of the
people" as uninformed and nebulous, relying instead on interest
groups and the media for representations of public opinion. Her
important and original book forces us to rethink our assumptions
about the meaning and place of public opinion in the realm of
contemporary democratic politics.
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