Wrong about nearly everything, but still rational: public opinion as a thermostat
Wrong about nearly everything, but still rational: public opinion as a thermostat
One of the perennial puzzles about the nature of mass opinion is how, despite the public knowing little about politics, and caring even less about the ebb and flow of public affairs, collective public opinion often turns out to be coherent and responsive to events and to new information. An influential line of research takes the view that whilst individuals may be ill-informed, public opinion --in the aggregate-- is ‘rational’, moving in response to events and changes in policy
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Jennings, Will
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28 October 2014
Jennings, Will
2ab3f11c-eb7f-44c6-9ef2-3180c1a954f7
Jennings, Will
(2014)
Wrong about nearly everything, but still rational: public opinion as a thermostat.
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Cowley, Philip and Ford, Robert
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One of the perennial puzzles about the nature of mass opinion is how, despite the public knowing little about politics, and caring even less about the ebb and flow of public affairs, collective public opinion often turns out to be coherent and responsive to events and to new information. An influential line of research takes the view that whilst individuals may be ill-informed, public opinion --in the aggregate-- is ‘rational’, moving in response to events and changes in policy
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Published date: 28 October 2014
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Politics & International Relations
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/380814
ISBN: 9781849547550
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Philip Cowley
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Robert Ford
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