Author: Jr., M. John Sterba
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Keywords: opinion, practice, third, letter, comprehensive, letters, legal, guide
Number of Pages: 1644
Published: 2002-12-18
List price: $440.00
ISBN-10: 0735530815
ISBN-13: 9780735530812
The demand for legal opinions is growing while the ground rules keep changing. Keep abreast of the latest developments with the third edition of Legal Opinion Letters. This unique guide covers all aspects - drafting, requesting, receiving, interpreting and evaluating - of both client and third-party legal opinion letters. Legal Opinion Letters provides comprehensive coverage not only of the standard corporate and securities third-party opinion letters, but also real estate opinions, tax, intellectual property, bankruptcy, letters to auditors, international opinions, and liability just to
Author: John R. Zaller
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: opinion, public, political, psychology, studies, cambridge, origins, mass, nature
Number of Pages: 381
Published: 1992-08-28
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521407869
ISBN-13: 9780521407861
In this book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory in order to explain the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including both domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and presidential approval, as well as voting behavior in U.S. House, Senate and Presidential elections. Particularly perplexing characteristics of public opinion are also examined, such as the high degree
Author: George F. Bisho
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: opinion, public, polls, american, fact, illusion, artifact
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2004-08-28
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0742516458
ISBN-13: 9780742516458
In a rigorous critique of public opinion polling in the U.S., George F. Bishop makes the case that a lot of what passes as public opinion in mass media today is an illusion, an artifact of measurement created by vague or misleading survey questions presented to respondents who typically construct their opinions on the spot. Using evidence from a wide variety of data sources, Bishop shows that widespread public ignorance and poorly informed opinions are the norm rather than definitive public opinion on key political, social, and cultural issues of the day. The Illusion of Public Opinion present
Author: Robert M. Entman
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: public, opinion, studies, communication, media, policy, foreign, news, power, projections, framing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-12-15
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 0226210723
ISBN-13: 9780226210728
To succeed in foreign policy, U.S. presidents have to sell their versions or framings of political events to the news media and to the public. But since the end of the Cold War, journalists have increasingly resisted presidential views, even offering their own spin on events. What, then, determines whether the media will accept or reject the White House perspective? And what consequences does this new media environment have for policymaking and public opinion?To answer these questions, Robert M. Entman develops a powerful new model of how media framing works—a model that allows him to explai
Author: Susan Herbst
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: public, opinion, studies, communication, media, process, view, political, actors, reading, democratic
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 1998-10-11
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0226327477
ISBN-13: 9780226327471
READING PUBLIC OPINION offers a provocative approach for understanding how public opinion fits into the empirical world of politics. Scholar Susan Herbst reveals that how public opinion is actually assessed has little to do with the mass public. Her original and important book forces us to rethink our assumptions about the place of public opinion in contemporary politics.
Author: Nicholas J. G. Winter
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: public, opinion, studies, communication, media, shape, frames, ideas, race, gender, dangerous
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0226902374
ISBN-13: 9780226902371
In addition to their obvious roles in American politics, race and gender also work in hidden ways to profoundly influence the way we think—and vote—about a vast array of issues that don’t seem related to either category. As Nicholas Winter reveals in Dangerous Frames, politicians and leaders often frame these seemingly unrelated issues in ways that prime audiences to respond not to the policy at hand but instead to the way its presentation resonates with their deeply held beliefs about race and gender. Winter shows, for example, how official rhetoric about welfare and Social Security has
Author: Susan Herbst
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: public, opinion, studies, communication, media, process, view, political, actors, reading, democratic
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0226327469
ISBN-13: 9780226327464
Public opinion is one of the most elusive and complex concepts in democratic theory, and we do not fully understand its role in the political process. Reading Public Opinion offers one provocative approach for understanding how public opinion fits into the empirical world of politics. In fact, Susan Herbst finds that public opinion, surprisingly, has little to do with the mass public in many instances.Herbst draws on ideas from political science, sociology, and psychology to explore how three sets of political participants—legislative staffers, political activists, and journalists—actually
