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From:Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin (Vol. 24, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThis study examined the influence of majority opinion on attitudes in the absence of persuasive argumentation. Participants who were either high or low in accuracy motivation were presented with an opinion poll that...
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From:The Quill (Vol. 77, Issue 2)Nuclear weapons and public secrets In June of 1979, a CBS/New York Times poll found that only 30 percent of Americans could correctly name the two nations involved in the SALT II talks. The negotiations between the...
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From:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWho should control the human genes used in research? (a) George Bush, (b) Leon Kass, (c) corporate America, (d) Kofi Annan, (e) you? If you said (d) or (e) you are in tune with the views of the general public, according...
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From:Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPresident Jimmy Carter's failure to achieve popular support for his foreign policy is commonly attributed to his disregard of public opinion. The author evaluates this perception by examining the Carter administration's...
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From:Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPublic opinion was closely watched during President Bill Clinton's impeachment scandal and trial by the president, other political officials, and the mass media. Although polls have become an integral part of...
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From:Newspaper Research Journal (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis content analysis of both traditional and online polls in selected U.S. newspapers from 1996 to 1998 finds substantial differences in the way they are reported in news stories. In the last several decades,...
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From:Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedContemporary research often ignores early presidential attempts to measure public opinion, focusing instead on the use of polls by modern presidents. The Hoover presidency precedes the invention of modern surveys and...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 22, Issue 4)Authors Paul J. Quirk's and Joseph Hinchliffe's article 'The Rising Hegemony of Mass Opinion' argue that the fears of the nation's founding fathers regarding the excesses of democracy have been realized. Both authors...
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From:Public Opinion Quarterly (Vol. 59, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe American Association for Public Opinion Research celebrates its 50th anniversary in 1995, and its accomplishments have been many. The perceptions people, policymakers and the press have about public opinion polls...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe increasing use of public opinion polls cannot be conclusively justified on the grounds of furthering free debate, the use of private property or as a utilitarian means of influencing public policy. The complexities...
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From:Public Opinion Quarterly (Vol. 61, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis study traces the effects of a purposefully chosen news agenda on the perceived and actual issue opinions of members of the mass public. Using a year-long, quasi-experimental design, we analyzed a newspaper's attempt...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 25, Issue 4)In their 1940 book The Pulse of Democracy, George Gallup and Saul Rae defended a new instrument, the public opinion poll, but they cautioned as well that polling, an industry then just out of its "swaddling clothes,"...
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From:International Journal of Public Opinion Research (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe World Assn of Public Opinion Research former Pres Robert M. Worcester discussed the relevance of doing public opinion research. He contended that such survey researches can be used to inform people in power about...
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From:Journal for the Study of Antisemitism (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper examines the proliferation of classic and secondary antisemitic attitudes in Canada and Germany. Data was collected from self-selected university students (n = 796 Canadian; n = 1,004 Germany) in one of the...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 18, Issue 24) Peer-ReviewedWomen perceive transvaginal ultrasound favourably, regardless of their prior knowledge or experience of the procedure. Researchers from Lancashire investigated women's views of transvaginal ultrasound in an emergency...
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From:Science (Vol. 236) Peer-ReviewedProblems in the Use of Survey Questions to Measure Public Opinion A SEEMINGLY SIMPLE WAY OF ASSESSINGpublic opinion is to ask a random sample of the public to choose from among an explicit or implicit set of...
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From:Information Today (Vol. 6, Issue 3)First Buddie Awarded for Best Unknown Database This being the season for awards, we are pleased to announce the first INFORMATION TODAY DATABASE REVIEW "Buddie" award, for the Best Unknown Database. The Buddie will...
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From:Public Opinion Quarterly (Vol. 59, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA number of theories have been offered to explain popular support for term limits and their passage in states across the country. Using survey data from the 1992 American National Election Study and several other...
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From:American Political Science Review (Vol. 89, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFour new books on public opinion and representation have turned public opinion research into a progressive branch of political science. The four, which provide different viewpoints into how an ordinary Americans' beliefs...
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From:International Journal of Public Opinion Research (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFormer World Assn Public Opinion Research Pres Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann expressed her and other public opinion specialists' disappointment over the declining quality of public opinion research. She attributed this...