Polls and the Awareness of Public Opinion

by Leo Bogart

How well can polls measure public opinion? Should government policies follow majority opinion? Do polls influence elections? Can there be polls under a dictatorship? Recent elections throughout the world have made these issues ever more crucial. 'Polls and the Awareness of Public Opinion', initially published under the title 'Silent Politics', is the first book to look upon polls and the awareness of poll results as forces that influence public opinion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138530433
• ISBN13: 9781138530430
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages