Silent Voices

Berinsky, Adam J.

Over the years, opinion polls have come to pervade American politics. Despite their shortcomings, the notion prevails that polls broadly represent public sentiment. But do they? This book presents an argument that the very process of collecting information on public preferences through surveys may bias our picture of those preferences.

Editora: Princeton Univ Pr
ISBN: 0691123780
Número de páginas: 240
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