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Feedback loop: a review essay on the public sphere, pop culture, and the early-modern sciences.(A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America; Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France)(Book review)
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Canadian Journal of History
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December 22, 2007
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- Stewart, Larry
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James Delbourgo, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 2006. 367 pp. $29.95 US (cloth).
Michael R. Lynn, Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France. Studies in Early Modern European History. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2006. 177 pp. $80.00 US (cloth).
In the early nineteenth century, the celebrated British electrician Michael Faraday repeated his electromagnetic experiments for the amusement of gentlemanly auditors at London's young Royal Institution. Faraday openly revealed what was already affirmed by experimental trials ...
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"The Common Purposes of Life": Science and Society at the Royal...
Albion;
September 22, 2004 ;
Smith, Robert W.;
776 words
......Life : Science and Society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Burlington, Vt...99.95. ISBN 0-7546-0960-X. The Royal Institution of Great Britain received its Royal...disseminate and generate knowledge, the Royal Institution has occupied an unusual niche in...
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Lapsed Memory? The Roots of American Public Opinion Research.
Polity;
September 22, 2000 ;
Korzi, Michael J.;
787 words
...We talk of public opinion as a new force in the world, conspicuous...popular. Lord Bryce, 1888(1) Although public opinion is a concept with a fairly long...increasingly began to see the public or public opinion as an important and legitimate...
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The role of public opinion in policy argument: an examination of public...
Argumentation and Advocacy;
January 1, 2005 ;
Levasseur, David G.;
787 words
...Public opinion holds great importance in democracies...1859/1975) observed the ascendancy of public opinion in modern democracies where the idea...argued that in the United States, public opinion rifles as a pervading and impalpable...
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Science for 'common purposes.'.(history of the Royal Institution of Great...
Chemistry and Industry;
March 15, 1999 ;
James, Frank A.J.L.;
787 words
......This institution rapidly became the Royal Institution of Great Britain. By the end of July...two centuries of its existence the Royal Institution has become one of the world's most...that research became a part of the Royal Institution's work as an institution. The person...
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Books -- Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent by Theodore L....
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator;
April 1, 1996 ;
Jablonski, Patrick M;
753 words
......Theodore L. and Charles T. Salmon (1995). Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent. New...Paperback, $24.95. Hardback, $49.95 Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent is...spectrum of theoretical issues in the public opinion field. This book is an important ...
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public opinion
Dictionary of the Social Sciences;
Craig Calhoun;
757 words
...public opinion For most modern commentators, the...public concern. Although the power of public opinion in politics has been recognized in...the public sphere, which conceive public opinion as emerging out of free debate in...
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The misunderstood public opinion of James Bryce
Journalism History;
April 1, 2002 ;
Bradshaw, Katherine A;
787 words
...Public opinion polls have appeared in newpapers since...most widely accepted definition of public opinion is that it is the sum of individual...have been widely misunderstood by public opinion scholars. Recent scholars have used...
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"America Speaks": George Gallup's First Syndicated Public Opinion Poll
Journalism History;
January 1, 2006 ;
Bradshaw, Katherine A;
787 words
...George Gallup said the creation of public opinion polling grew from his experience in...reveals the foundation of Gallup's public opinion polling in his market research and...the origin of the understanding of public opinion as poll results. George Gallup's first...
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Opening the president's mailbag: the Nixon administration's rhetorical use...
Presidential Studies Quarterly;
March 1, 2008 ;
Rottinghaus, Brandon;
787 words
......documented the use and evaluation of public opinion inside the White House in observance...often crafted ) connection between public opinion and presidential action (Jacobs and...and responsive connections between public opinion and presidential action, especially...
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Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator;
April 1, 1999 ;
Speckman, Karon R;
495 words
...Herbst, Susan (1998). Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic...educators and students need to understand public opinion and how political players interpret it. Herbst says public opinion is a "contested and malleable concept...
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Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future of American...
Social Forces;
June 1, 2003 ;
Hill, Craig A.;
787 words
...Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future...2002. 376 pp. Cloth, $65.00. Does public opinion count with regard to policymaking...politicians and policy makers discount public opinion, or count on it? As the frequency...
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Public Opinion
Canadian Encyclopedia;
ANDR? BLAIS;
787 words
......BLAIS Canadian Encyclopedia 01-01-2002 Public Opinion Author: ANDR BLAIS Public opinion is a term popularized by Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's finance minister, who wrote that public opinion influenced the behaviour of investors on...
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Public opinion and Bulgaria's involvement in the Iraq war.(Concert review)
East European Quarterly;
December 22, 2006 ;
Vassilev, Rossen;
787 words
......openly to challenge the dictates of public opinion, even if they consider the latter to...substantial correspondence between policy and public opinion. Moreover, policymakers also tend not...283). Then there is the view that public opinion has little influence on the foreign...
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Democratic responsiveness? Untangling the links between public opinion and...
PS: Political Science & Politics;
March 1, 1994 ;
Page, Benjamin I.;
787 words
......substantial empirical relationships between public opinion (in the sense of survey-measured collective...Open Questions 1. How much impact does public opinion actually have on policy making? In...policy rather than the reverse? If public opinion simply tends to swing into line ...
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The Impact of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy since Vietnam:...
Perspectives on Political Science;
June 22, 2001 ;
MOSHER, JOHN;
787 words
...Sobel, Richard The Impact of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy since Vietnam...author of many works including his 1993 Public Opinion in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Controversy...policies pursued, and the influence of public opinion. Of the four, the Gulf War is the most...
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