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Title: Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process (Studies in Communication, Media and Public Opinion) by Susan Herbst ISBN: 0-226-32747-7 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Some comments on the previous reviewer
Comment: The book is interesting and intriguing in that it provides a different look at how different people think public opinion. Some of the comments made by the previous online reviewer are contestable. She argues that "who cares about how political actors think." Obviously, everyone who is an interested in the relationship between public opinion and the democratic processes should care about how people occupying strategic positions in the political system - that is, political activists and journalists - think about public opinion. She says that if she asked her grandma about public opinion and the answer would be equally intriguing. Actually Prof Herbst will agree with this point since understanding how common people think about public opinion itself is an interesting and important question. It provides insights into the political culture of a society. Though Prof Herbst did not study common people's conception of public opinion in this book, she had done such research elsewhere. French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu argues that "public opinion does not exist," that is, the ideal version of public opinion - a single unified public providing their opinion as an autonomous force directing government policy - does not exist. However, public opinion remains a concept that people, politicians, and scholars in a democratic society talk about so often. Thus, it would be important for people to think about how different people in the society understand the term, and it is to this aspect that Prof Herbst recent work contributes.
Rating: 1
Summary: The empirical basis of this book is severely lacking
Comment: This book purports to be "provocative" and "important." It is neither. The empirical basis for the book is in-depth interviews with a purposive sample of "political actors." They apparently reveal what public opinion is. The big question is: Who cares what these political actors think? I might as well go ask my grandmother what public opinion is. It would be just as provactive and interesting. In this book, Prof. Herbst attempts to understand what public opinion is by asking others. In her previous book "Numbered Voices" she attempted to do this by looking at historical references. Here is a newsflash for Prof. Herbst: There is no such thing as public opinion -- stop wasting your time and ours.
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Title: Numbered Voices: How Opinion Polling Has Shaped American Politics by Susan Herbst ISBN: 0226327434 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Governing With the News: The News Media As a Political Institution (Studies in Communication, Media and Public Opinion) by Timothy E. Cook ISBN: 0226115003 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Civic Web: Online Politics and Democratic Values by David M. Anderson, Michael Cornfield ISBN: 0742501949 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Public Opinion by Carroll J. Glynn, Carroll J. Glynn, Susan Herbst, Garret O'Keefe, Bruce A. Williams ISBN: 0813329175 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $46.00 |
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Title: Warp Speed: America in the Age of the Mixed Media Culture by Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel ISBN: 0870784374 Publisher: Century Foundation Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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