From the very outset in the 1930s, public opinion polling has been closely wedded to the
study of popular democratic politics. The first issue of the Public Opinion Quarterly was …

The authors describe the general nature of current public-opinion polls and place them
against an historical background of problems of democracy from the time of Bryce's …

HE phrase “public opinion” has become vague and ambiguous through abuse and misuse.
Yet it is a phrase which is of vital importance in any democracy. It is neither pedantic nor …

Public opinion research has sometimes been neglectful of both the political content of its
data and the extent to which it could vitalize the theory of democratic politics. In this, his …

This book furnishes the first systematic examination of the highly important and widely
misunderstood new methods of surveying public opinion. The studies reported were done …

The speculative approach to public opinion characteristic of the last century and the current
empirical approach may be seen as supplementary rather than antithetical. Modern …

This volume attempts" to answer all the questions most frequently asked of polling
organizations." The 80 questions are arranged under the following headings: the function of …

This book traces the emergence of the ideas and institutions that evolved to give people
mastery over their own destiny through the force of public opinion. The Greek belief in citizen …

Public opinion-is it a simple aggregation of individual views, or is it some kind of collective-
level, emergent product of debate? What is the role of public opinion in popular …