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Navigating public opinion : polls, policy, and the future of American democracy / edited by Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook, Benjamin I. Page.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: OUP E-BooksPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 376 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780195348842
  • 0195348842
  • 1280833505
  • 9781280833502
  • 9786610833504
  • 6610833508
  • 9780195149333
  • 0195149335
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Navigating public opinion.DDC classification:
  • 303.3/8/0973 21
LOC classification:
  • HN90.P8 N385 2002eb
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Contents:
Navigating public opinion : an introduction / Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook, Benjamin I. Page -- Impact of public opinion on public policy : the state of the debate / Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook -- Public opinion and policy : causal flow in a macro system model / Robert S. Erikson, Michael B. Mackuen, James A. Stimson -- Politics and policymaking in the real world : crafted talk and the loss of democratic responsiveness / Lawrence R. Jacobs, Robert Y. Shapiro -- Panderers or shirkers? Politicians and public opinion / Robert S. Erikson, Michael B. Mackuen, James A. Stimson.
Public opinion and congressional action on labor market opportunities, 1942-2000/ Paul Burstein -- Polls, priming, and the politics of welfare reform / R. Kent Weaver -- Power elite, public policy, and public opinion / G. William Domhoff -- Policy elites invoke public opinion : polls, policy debates, and the future of social security / Fay Lomax Cook, Jason Barabas, Benjamin I. Page -- How state-level policy managers "read" public opinion / Susan Herbst -- Public opinion, foreign policy, and deomocracy : how presidents use public opinion / Robert Y. Shapiro, Lawrence R. Jacobs.
How policymakers misperceive U.S. public opinion on foreign policy / Steven Kull, Clay Ramsay -- Authority and limitations of polls / Peter V. Miller -- Anatomy of survey-based experiments / Martin Gilens -- Probabilistic polling / Charles F. Manski -- Future of polling : relational iference and the survey instruments / James Witte, Philip E.N. Howard -- Sovereign status of survey data / Taeku Lee -- Value of polls in promoting good government and democracy / Humphrey Taylor -- Semi-sovereign public / Benjamin I. Page.
Summary: Do politicians listen to the public? How often and when? Or are the views of the public manipulated or used strategically by political and economic elites? Navigating Public Opinion brings together leading scholars of American politics to assess and debate these questions. It describes how the relationship between opinion and policy has changed over time; how key political actors use public opinion to formulate domestic and foreign policy; and how new measurement techniques might improve our understanding of public opinion in contemporary polling and survey research. The distinguished contribu.
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Navigating public opinion : an introduction / Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook, Benjamin I. Page -- Impact of public opinion on public policy : the state of the debate / Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook -- Public opinion and policy : causal flow in a macro system model / Robert S. Erikson, Michael B. Mackuen, James A. Stimson -- Politics and policymaking in the real world : crafted talk and the loss of democratic responsiveness / Lawrence R. Jacobs, Robert Y. Shapiro -- Panderers or shirkers? Politicians and public opinion / Robert S. Erikson, Michael B. Mackuen, James A. Stimson.

Public opinion and congressional action on labor market opportunities, 1942-2000/ Paul Burstein -- Polls, priming, and the politics of welfare reform / R. Kent Weaver -- Power elite, public policy, and public opinion / G. William Domhoff -- Policy elites invoke public opinion : polls, policy debates, and the future of social security / Fay Lomax Cook, Jason Barabas, Benjamin I. Page -- How state-level policy managers "read" public opinion / Susan Herbst -- Public opinion, foreign policy, and deomocracy : how presidents use public opinion / Robert Y. Shapiro, Lawrence R. Jacobs.

How policymakers misperceive U.S. public opinion on foreign policy / Steven Kull, Clay Ramsay -- Authority and limitations of polls / Peter V. Miller -- Anatomy of survey-based experiments / Martin Gilens -- Probabilistic polling / Charles F. Manski -- Future of polling : relational iference and the survey instruments / James Witte, Philip E.N. Howard -- Sovereign status of survey data / Taeku Lee -- Value of polls in promoting good government and democracy / Humphrey Taylor -- Semi-sovereign public / Benjamin I. Page.

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Do politicians listen to the public? How often and when? Or are the views of the public manipulated or used strategically by political and economic elites? Navigating Public Opinion brings together leading scholars of American politics to assess and debate these questions. It describes how the relationship between opinion and policy has changed over time; how key political actors use public opinion to formulate domestic and foreign policy; and how new measurement techniques might improve our understanding of public opinion in contemporary polling and survey research. The distinguished contribu.

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