Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion)
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Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion)

Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion)

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Susan Herbst (Author)  

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Drawing on ideas from political science, sociology and psychology this text explores how three sets of political participants - legislative staffers, political activists and journalists - actually evaluate and assess public opinion. The text gives one approach to understanding how public opinion fits into the empirical world of politics and finds that it has little to do with the mass public. Concluding 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.
Susan Herbst is president of the University of Connecticut. She previously served as executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer at the University System of Georgia, as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at SUNY-Albany, as dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University, and as a professor of political science and communication studies and chair of the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University.
  • Contributor: Susan Herbst
  • Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN13: 9780226327471
  • Number of Pages: 266
  • Packaged Dimensions: 17x23x2mm
  • Packaged Weight: 454
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Release Date: 1998-10-12
  • Series: Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Susan Herbst is president of the University of Connecticut. She previously served as executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer at the University System of Georgia, as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at SUNY-Albany, as dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University, and as a professor of political science and communication studies and chair of the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University.

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