Navigating Public Opinion Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy

Name: Navigating Public Opinion Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy
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ISBN: 9780195149340

ISBN-10: 0195149343

ISBN-13: 9780195149340

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook, Benjamin I. Page

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Do Politicians listen to the public? When? How often? Or are the views of the public manipulated or used strategically by elites? In this book, leading scholars of American politics assess and debate the impact of public opinion on policymaking. Central questions include the changing relationships between opinion and policy over time, how key actors use public opinion to formulate domestic and foreign policy, and how new measurement techniques might improve our understanding of theresults of polls and survey research. These state-of-the-art essays address issues that lie at the heart of democratic governance today.

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Fay Lomax Cook is a professor in the School of Education and Social Policy and the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. She is author of Who Should be Helped? Public support for social servicesand a coauthor of The Journalism of Outrage: Investigative Reporting and Agenda Building in America.Edith J. Barrett is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Brown University.



Contributors


Navigating Public Opinion: An Introduction




Does Policy Responsiveness Exist?



The Impact of Public Opinion on Public Policy: The State of the Debate




Public Opinion and Policy: Causal Flow in a Macro System Model




Politics and Policymaking in the Real World: Crafted Talk and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness




Panderers or Shirkers? Politicians and Public Opinion




Public Opinion and Congressional Action on Labor Market Opportunities, 1942-2000




Polls, Priming, and the Politics of Welfare Reform




The Power Elite, Public Policy, and Public Opinion




How Political Elites Use Public Opinion



Policy Elites Invoke Public Opinion: Polls, Policy Debates, and the Future of Social Security




How State-Level Policy Managers "Read" Public Opinion




Public Opinion, Foreign Policy, and Democracy: How Presidents Use Public Opinion




How Policymakers Misperceive U.S. Public Opinion on Foreign Policy




Measuring Public Opinion



The Authority and Limitations of Polls




An Anatomy of Survey-Based Experiments




Probabilistic Polling




The Future of Polling: Relational Inference and the Development of Internet Survey Instruments




The Sovereign Status of Survey Data




Conclusion



The Value of Polls in Promoting Good Government and Democracy




The Semi-Sovereign Public



References


Index