polls, policy, and the future of American democracy /
edited by Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook, Benjamin I. Page.
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
1 online resource (xvi, 376 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references.
Do politicians listen to the public? How often and when? Or are the views of the public manipulated or used strategically by political and economic elites? Navigating Public Opinion brings together leading scholars of American politics to assess and debate these questions. It describes how the relationship between opinion and policy has changed over time; how key political actors use public opinion to formulate domestic and foreign policy; and how new measurement techniques might improve our understanding of public opinion in contemporary polling and survey research. The distinguished contribu.