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Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process Paperback - 1998

by Susan Herbst

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READING PUBLIC OPINION offers a provocative approach for understanding how public opinion fits into the empirical world of politics. Scholar Susan Herbst reveals that how public opinion is actually assessed has little to do with the mass public. Her original and important book forces us to rethink our assumptions about the place of public opinion in contemporary politics.

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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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  • Title Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process
  • Author Susan Herbst
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 266
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1998-10-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780226327471 / 0226327477
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.09 x 6.3 x 0.79 in (23.09 x 16.00 x 2.01 cm)
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Public opinion - United States, Journalists - United States - Attitudes
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98005160
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.380

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