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1.
Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2002
Subjects:
Public Opinion Polls
Public Opinion--United States
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...informationprocessing and social control. Opinion polls thus emerge as merely another...opinion, thenormative appeals to opinion polls came to imply a particular conception...their constituents, the appeal of opinion polls clearly nudges ustoward the ideal...
2.
The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth behind the Polls
Contributors:
Publisher:
Beacon Press 2008
Subjects:
Public Opinion--United States
Public Opinion Polls--United States
Election Forecasting--United States
Mass Media--Political Aspects--United States
Press And Politics--United States
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...that,combined, these four polls overwhelmingly shape the country'spublic opinion environment. The other media polls mentionedin this book are those...I accept the principle that polls canmeasure public opinion, but only if they tell the...
3.
The Pre-Election Polls of 1948: Report to the Committee on Analysis of Pre-Election Polls and Forecasts
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Publisher:
Social Science Research Council 1949
Subjects:
Presidents--United States--Election--1948
Public Opinion Polls
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...Election forecasts from polls are hazardous. This...possibletests of opinion studies are needed...election forecasting, opinion polls con­ducted...Americandemocratic process. Such polls do two things: They...relation between opinion on important issues...
4.
The Battle for Public Opinion: The President, the Press, and the Polls during Watergate
Contributors:
Publisher:
Columbia University Press 1983
Subjects:
Watergate Affair, 1972-1974--Public Opinion
Public Opinion--United States
Press And Politics--United States
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...restrained by public opinion. Polls that continued to show...00ADance, though these same polls also showed large majorities...politics. Critics of opinion research have gone so...Watergate the ma­jot polls, whether by inadvertence...
5.
Follow the Leader: Opinion Polls and the Modern Presidents
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Publisher:
Basic Books 1992
Subjects:
Presidents--United States
Public Opinion--United States
United States--Politics And Government--1945-1989
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...presidentswho care for public opinion would weigh these risks carefully...thecountry more to find out what opinion really is. Since someonemust...If thesethings are true, the polls are not expressing what the...run objectives andwatch the polls. Those who succeed at it best...
6.
Election Polls, the News Media, and Democracy
Contributors:
Publisher:
Chatham House Publishers 2000
Subjects:
Public Opinion Polls
Public Opinion--United States
Election Forecasting--United States
Press And Politics--United States
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...0028generalizability) of opinion polls because of allegedly flawed methodsused...point formany recent critics of opinion polls and the media's use of them...it wasnot the information that opinion polls generate. Many who use Blumer...
7.
The Voter's Guide to Election Polls
Contributors:
Publisher:
Chatham House Publishers 1999 (2nd edition)
Subjects:
Public Opinion--United States
Election Forecasting--United States
Press And Politics--United States
Public Opinion Polls
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...GOLLIN, ALBERT E., GUEST ED. 1980. Polls and the News Media: A Sympo­sium, Public Opinion Quarterly 44, no. 4 (WinterU...articles devotedentirely to the use of polls by the news media. In his introduction...
8.
Presidential Polls and the News Media
Contributors:
Publisher:
Westview Press 1995
Subjects:
Public Opinion--United States
Presidents--United States--Election
Mass Media--Political Aspects--United States
Press And Politics--United States
Public Opinion Polls
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...complex history of public opinion in America, but I canpoint...exploring the nature of early straw polls in themid-nineteenth century...pollsters, journalistsand public opinion scholars.A note of qualification...news­paper to conduct polls, it is still fairly easy to...
9.
Polls Apart: A Report from the Kettering Foundation
Contributors:
Publisher:
Seven Locks Press 1982
Subjects:
Public Opinion--United States
United States--Foreign Relations--1945-1989--Public Opinion
Public Opinion Polls
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...a Non-User, Public Opinion Quarterly27(1963U...Mervin D. Field, Public Polls and the Public Interest...resulting expansion of polls has notbeen accompanied...critical look at how public opinion polls could best be used.
10.
Polls: Their Use and Misuse in Politics
Contributors:
Publisher:
Basic Books 1972
Subjects:
Public Opinion Polls
Public Opinion--United States
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...nationally syndicated polls. Their clientele are...incongruities of public opinion can be explained andaccounted...function the published polls can serve is toprovide...to ferretout facets of opinion on complex issues. Given...interest inthe national polls by political leaders...
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