This book offers the first comparative inventory and analysis of public opinion and education in developed countries, drawing on data primarily from Europe and the United States.
Public Opinion and Popular Government
Examines the ways in which public opinion affects public policy via the news media. Draws together theory and original research concerning the role of the press in shaping public policy.
U.S. Gallup data were made available by Gallup online; U.K. Gallup data are from King and Wybrow (2001); Angus Reid data were drawn from Reid Reports archived at the University of British Columbia. All data are collected in Stuart ...
This book is the first to examine what influences Congress across the hundreds of issues it deals with, and produces some surprising conclusions.
The book builds upon what students have already learned and emphasizes connections between topics as well as between theory and applications.
In what is widely considered the most influential book ever written by Walter Lippmann, the late journalist and social critic provides a fundamental treatise on the nature of human information...
When? How often? Or are the views of the public manipulated and used strategically by elites? In this text, leading scholars of American politics assess and debate the impact of public opinion on policy making.
Public Opinion and Public Policy in Canada: Questions of Confidence
In twelve chapters that reflect different perspectives on how people form political opinions and how these opinions are manipulated, this book offers an unparalleled view of the state-of-the-art research on these important questions as it ...