(Ebook) Navigating Public Opinion Polls Policy and the Future of American Democracy 1st Edition by Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook, Benjamin Page ISBN 9780195149333 0195149335

(Ebook) Navigating Public Opinion Polls Policy and the Future of American Democracy 1st Edition by Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook, Benjamin Page ISBN 9780195149333 0195149335

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ISBN 10:  0195149335

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

Do politicians listen to the public? How often and when? Or are the views of the public manipulated or used strategically by political and economic elites? Navigating Public Opinion brings together leading scholars of American politics to assess and debate these questions. It describes how therelationship between opinion and policy has changed over time; how key political actors use public opinion to formulate domestic and foreign policy; and how new measurement techniques might improve our understanding of public opinion in contemporary polling and survey research. The distinguished contributors shed new light on several long-standing controversies over policy responsiveness to public opinion. Featuring a new analysis by Robert Erikson, Michael MacKuen, and James Stimson that builds from their pathbreaking work on how public mood moves policy in amacro-model of policymaking, the volume also includes several critiques of this model by Lawrence Jacobs and Robert Shapiro, another critique by G. William Domhoff, and a rejoinder by Erikson and his coauthors. Other highlights include discussions of how political elites, including state-levelpolicymakers, presidents, and makers of foreign policy, use (or shape) public opinion; and analyses of new methods for measuring public opinion such as survey-based experiments, probabilistic polling methods, non-survey-based measures of public opinion, and the potential and limitations of Internetpolls and surveys. Introductory and concluding essays provide useful background context and offer an authoritative summary of what is known about how public opinion influences public policy. A must-have for all students of American politics, public opinion, and polling, this state-of-the-art collection addresses issues that lie at the heart of democratic governance today.

Table of contents: 

1. Contributors

2. Navigating Public Opinion: An Introduction

3. Does Policy Responsiveness Exist?

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

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

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

7. Panderers or Shirkers? Politicians and Public Opinion

8. Public Opinion and Congressional Action on Labor Market Opportunities, 1942–2000

9. Polls, Priming, and the Politics of Welfare Reform

10. The Power Elite, Public Policy, and Public Opinion

11. How Political Elites Use Public Opinion

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

13. How State-Level Policy Managers "Read" Public Opinion

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

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

16. Measuring Public Opinion

17. The Authority and Limitations of Polls

18. An Anatomy of Survey-Based Experiments

19. Probabilistic Polling

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

21. The Sovereign Status of Survey Data

22. Conclusion

23. The Value of Polls in Promoting Good Government and Democracy

24. The Semi-Sovereign Public

25. References

26. Index

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