Article: Books -- Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent by Theodore L. Glasser and Charles T. Salmon

Article: Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the ...
Social Forces;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future ... 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 ...

Article: Reassessing public opinion polling in the Truman ...
Presidential Studies Quarterly;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... origins of the institutionalization of public opinion polling in the administrative apparatus ... the development and utilization of public opinion polls by presidents has yet to be fully ... 1986; Cornwell 1965), scholars of public opinion (Heith 1998; Geer 1996;Jacobs and ...

Encyclopedia entry: Public Opinion
Canadian Encyclopedia;      700+ words ... ... BLAIS Canadian Encyclopedia 01-01-2002 Public Opinion Author: ANDR BLAIS Public opinion is a term popularized by Jacques Necker ... XVI's finance minister, who wrote that public opinion influenced the behaviour of investors on ...

Article: The role of public opinion in policy argument: an ...
Argumentation and Advocacy;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Public opinion holds great importance in democracies ... 1975) observed the "ascendancy of public opinion" in modern democracies where "the ... argued that in the United States, public opinion "rifles as a pervading and impalpable ...

Article: The misunderstood public opinion of James Bryce
Journalism History;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ 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 ...

Article: "America Speaks": George Gallup's First Syndicated Public ...
Journalism History;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ 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 ...

Article: The Impact of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy ...
Presidential Studies Quarterly;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... primary objective of The Impact of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy since Vietnam is to examine the relationship between public opinion and foreign policy decision making ... policy decision making: when does public opinion influence the development of U.S ...