Mass Informed Consent: Evidence on Upgrading Democracy with Polls and New Media

by Adam F. Simon

Today's politics features a wealth of public opinion polling, but at the cost of suspicion and skepticism. Using recent, hot-button issues as case studies, Adam Simon discusses the science of polling in today's politics, laying the fundamentals of public opinion research, and advocating that poll results meet the standard for mass informed consent and should play a larger role. Mass Informed Consent will be of special interest to students of public...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742562557
• ISBN13: 9780742562554
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"