Czechoslovak PO poll results for the period Jan 1968-Mar 1969 are summarized. The original polls were conducted by the Czechoslovak Instit of PO & released to the press. Topics covered include econ trends, perspectives on nat'l history, evaluation of nat'l leaders, att's toward foreign countries & world events, the movement of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia, student protests, censorship, rehabilitation of prisoners, reforms & the role of the Communist Party. Reforming tendencies got massive support & the policies of the 1950's typically were endorsed by 2-3% on most questions. AA.
This work try to show the history of public opinion in five stages ranging from its presentation in the XVIII with the Enlightenment to its new configuration with our social media, through the institution of public opinion in the liberal press of the nineteenth century, the issues of manipulation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and its status as a place of democracy in the second half of the twentieth. ; Se recorre la historia de la noción de opinión pública en cinco etapas que van desde su presentación en el XVIII con la Ilustración a los nuevos modos de los social media, pasando por la institución de la opinión pública en la prensa liberal del XIX, las cuestiones de la manipulación de finales del XIX y principios del XX y su condición de lugar de la democracia en la segunda mitad del XX.
"This book presents a comprehensive examination of public opinion in the democratic world. Built around chapters that highlight key explanatory frameworks used in understanding public opinion, the book presents a coherent study of the subject in a comparative perspective, emphasizing and interrogating immigration as a key issue of high concern to most mass publics in the democratic world. Key features of the book include: covers several theoretical issues and determinants of opinion such as the effects of personality, age and life cycle, ideology, social class, partisanship, gender, religion, ethnicity, language, and media, highlighting over time the effects of political, social, and economic contexts; each chapter explores the theoretical rationale, mechanisms of effect, and use in the scholarly literature on public opinion before applying these to the issue of immigration comparatively and in specific places or regions; widely comparative using a nine-country sample (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States of America) in the analysis of individual-level determinants of public opinion about immigration and extending to other countries like Belgium, Brazil and Japan when evaluating contextual factors. This edited volume will be essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in public opinion, political behaviour, voting behaviour, politics of the media, immigration, political communication, and, more generally, democracy and comparative politics"--
"Seven out of the fourteen chapters have appeared in the Fortnightly review of London during the past year; five in the Century magazine of New York, and the last two are here presented for the first time."--Pref. ; The land of the optimist.--Public sentiment.--President wilson's problems.--Public opinion and the tariff.--The overtaxed melting-pot.--The American people and their diplomats.--America in the Far East.--The United States and Russia.--Japan and the United States.--Food an international asset.--America and the Balkans.--Mexico and the United States.--The Monroe doctrine.--American foreign relations. ; Mode of access: Internet.
"Seven out of the fourteen chapters have appeared in the Fortnightly review of London during the past year; five in the Century magazine of New York, and the last two are here presented for the first time."--Pref. ; The land of the optimist.--Public sentiment.--President Wilson's problems.--Public opinion and the tariff.--The overtaxed melting-pot.--The American people and their diplomats.--America in the Far East.--The United States and Russia.--Japan and the United States.--Food an international asset.--America and the Balkans.--Mexico and the United States.--The Monroe doctrine.--American foreign relations. ; Mode of access: Internet.
This book presents a comprehensive examination of public opinion in the democratic world. Built around chapters that highlight key explanatory frameworks used in understanding public opinion, the book presents a coherent study of the subject in a comparative perspective, emphasizing and interrogating immigration as a key issue of high concern to most mass publics in the democratic world. Key features of the book include: Covers several theoretical issues and determinants of opinion such as the effects of personality, age and life cycle, ideology, social class, partisanship, gender, religion, ethnicity, language, and media, highlighting over time the effects of political, social, and economic contexts. Each chapter explores the theoretical rationale, mechanisms of effect, and use in the scholarly literature on public opinion before applying these to the issue of immigration comparatively and in specific places or regions. Widely comparative using a nine-country sample (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America) in the analysis of individual-level determinants of public opinion about immigration and extending to other countries like Belgium, Brazil, and Japan when evaluating contextual factors. This edited volume will be essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in public opinion, political behaviour, voting behaviour, politics of the media, immigration, political communication, and, more generally, democracy and comparative politics.
Here we document an under-studied but important phenomenon that we call ascendant public opinion, which emerges when a new concern is framed as an instance of a broader issue and gains ascendancy over that issue in the public's mind. We focus on the ever-increasing role climate change has come to play over the past three decades in shaping how Americans think about broader environmental concerns. We show that news coverage of the environment has focused increasingly on climate change over time, while climate change concurrently has come to dominate all other environmental problems in the strength of its association with general environmental concern in opinion surveys. Panel studies provide evidence that the growing correlation between attitudes on climate change and the environment is predominantly due to the impact of the former on the latter. These developments have been consequential: we estimate that Americans' level of concern about the environment is now both more elevated and more polarized along party lines than if climate change did not occupy its dominant place on the environmental agenda. Climate change is likely just one example of how ascendant public opinion can have important consequences for politics and policy.
