Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process
- ISBN-10
- 0226327477
- ISBN-13
- 9780226327471
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-10-11
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Susan Herbst
Description
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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