Toward Wiser Public Judgment - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826517382 ISBN 13: 9780826517388

Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

A collection of essays argues that we should move away from using political polls as the only way to bring public opinion into the political landscape and instead also incorporate other forms of civic engagement, education, dialogue and deliberation.

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Dan Yankelovich, Chairman and Co-Founder of Public Agenda, is the initiator of the New York Times/Yankelovich Poll and the author of twelve books. A founding president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, he is also chairman emeritus of the Educational Testing Service. Yankelovich was Research Professor of Psychology at New York University and Professor of Psychology on the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research.

Will Friedman is President of Public Agenda, where he founded its public engagement department in 1997 and its Center for Advances in Public Engagement in 2007. The author of numerous articles on the theory and practice of public engagement, he was previously COO at Public Agenda and senior vice president for policy studies at the Work in America Institute.

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Polls tell us almost nothing about how people make up their minds.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0826517382
• ISBN 13: 9780826517388
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 178
• Herausgeber: Yankelovich Daniel, Friedman Will
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar