Opinion Polls and the Media [electronic resource] : Reflecting and Shaping Public Opinion /
Holtz-Bacha, C.editor.
Strömbäck, J.editor.
Opinion Polls and the Media provides the most comprehensive analysis to date on the relationship between the media, opinion polls, and public opinion. Looking at the extent to which the media, through their use of opinion polls, both reflect and shape public opinion, it brings together a team of leading scholars and analyzes theoretical and methodological approaches to the media and their use of opinion polls. The contributors explore how the media use opinion polls in a range of countries across the world, and analyze the effects and uses of opinion polls by the public as well as political actors.
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Cover; Contents; Index; List of Tables; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 The Media and Their Use of Opinion Polls: Reflecting and Shaping Public Opinion; Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Approa; 2 Public Opinion and Opinion Polling: Contradictions and Controversies; 3 Regulation of Opinion Polls: A Comparative Perspective; 4 Methodological Trends and Controversies in the Media's Use of Opinion Polls; Part II: The Media's Publication of Opinion Polls; 5 Opinion Polls and the Media in Germany: A Productive but Critical Relationship
6 Opinion Polls and the Media in the United States7 Opinion Polls and the Media in Brazil; 8 Opinion Polls and the Media in Australia; 9 Opinion Polls and the Media in South Africa; 10 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Public Opinion Polling in Taiwan; Part III: Effects and Consequences of Published Opinion Polls; 11 Attitudinal and Behavioral Consequences of Published Opinion Polls; 12 Published Opinion Polls, Strategic Party Behavior and News Management; 13 Polls, Media and the Political System
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Opinion Polls and the Media provides the most comprehensive analysis to date on the relationship between the media, opinion polls, and public opinion. Looking at the extent to which the media, through their use of opinion polls, both reflect and shape public opinion, it brings together a team of leading scholars and analyzes theoretical and methodological approaches to the media and their use of opinion polls. The contributors explore how the media use opinion polls in a range of countries across the world, and analyze the effects and uses of opinion polls by the public as well as political actors.
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