… The media’s role in this process is pivotal, and in this chapter I outline the nature of a media framework in which the views of politicalelites are represented as being in broad alignment …
RY Shapiro - Critical Review, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
… of elite versus mass opinion bear on the question of elite versus … to public or elite incompetence, the German public clearly did have real attitudes that were not driven by politicalelites. …
… elites discussing Social Security did invoke publicopinion. Contrary to our expectations, however, few of the elite invocations of publicopinion … about the distribution of opinion. Although …
MK Jennings - Public Opinion Quarterly, 1992 - academic.oup.com
… from nationally based samples of the mass public and politicalelites we have been able to … thinking in American politics. Overall, it is patent that political party elites have a vastly more …
… of political knowledge. In addition, we also study two elements of elite perceptions of public opinion: … Our first expectation was that the politicalelites in Sweden would become more …
… covers the full array of expert and politicaleliteopinion. We believe, however, that representative democracy can work even when politicalelites fail to meet their democratic obligations. …
L Hooghe - European Union Politics, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
… 13 policies among European elites, national elites, and publicopinion. Elites are more willing to cede … Elites and public preferences are similar in that both are least enthusiastic about …
… We focus on publicopinion on the four, related policy issues that are included in each of the … on British politics thereby calls into question party elites’ abilities to shape publicopinion on …
JG Bullock - American Political Science Review, 2011 - cambridge.org
An enduring concern about democracies is that citizens conform too readily to the policy views of elites in their own parties, even to the point of ignoring other information about the …