Reading Public Opinion

How Political Actors View the Democratic Process

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Susan Herbst

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Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion

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Public opinion is one of the most elusive and complex concepts in democratic theory, and we do not fully understand its role in the political process. Reading Public Opinion offers one provocative approach for understanding how public opinion fits into the empirical world of politics. In fact, Susan Herbst finds that public opinion, surprisingly, has little to do with the mass public in many instances. Herbst draws on ideas from political science, sociology, and psychology to explore how three sets of political participants—legislative staffers, political activists, and journalists—actually evaluate and assess public opinion. She concludes that many political actors reject "the voice of the people" as uninformed and nebulous, relying instead on interest groups and the media for representations of public opinion. Her important and original book forces us to rethink our assumptions about the meaning and place of public opinion in the realm of contemporary democratic politics.

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Susan Herbst is university professor of political science and president emeritus at the University of Connecticut. She is author of many books and articles including Rude Democracy: Civility and Incivility in America. She is coeditor of the Studies in American Politics series, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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October 11th, 1998

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Susan Herbst

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

266

Series

Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion

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17x23x2

ISBN-13

9780226327471

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4389287

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