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Title: Politicians Don't Pander: Politicial Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion) by Lawrence R. Jacobs, Robert Y. Shapiro ISBN: 0-226-38983-9 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: A major disappointment
Comment: This book has been widely touted, so I talked two other political scientists into plowing through it for our reading group. We found the book to be a major disappointment.
The authors have an argument to make, but the quality of their qualitative and quantitative evidence is at best uneven. The survey analysis seldom includes multivariate tests and the interview sources, while extensive, are episodically not comprehensively analyzed. By the end of the book, we had little confidence that the conclusions the authors presented were well supported by their evidence.
It's a readable book, but it is difficult to put much faith in
its conclusions.
Rating: 4
Summary: Terrific: Explores Link Betwn Public Opinion & Politicians
Comment: This is a wide-ranging, theoretically rich and empirically focused look at whether politicians simply "follow" the polls or whether politicians use polls to help "sell" proposals to the public. The answer is both, of course, but Jacobs and Shapiro explain how and why public leaders develop their own policy views, and how the public's acceptance of those views shape how policies are ultimately formed. Politicians are "trustees" in the Burkean sense, but how they explain their actions have to be placed in a "delegate" framework. Their case study on health care policy is especially instructive. This book won the 2001 Goldsmith Book Prize, it should be read by serious students of the media and politics.
Rating: 1
Summary: I say, dash it!
Comment: Reading this book, one phrase kept floating to mind - dash it all. I think..... well, I don't know. This book, er, doesn't do justice to the concept of intercounty by-elections, what?
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Title: Hard Choices, Easy Answers : Values, Information, and American Public Opinion by R. Michael Alvarez, John Brehm ISBN: 069109635X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion by John R. Zaller ISBN: 0521407869 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: What Americans Know About Politics and Why It Matters by Michael X. Delli Carpini, Scott Keeter, Michael X. Delli Carpini ISBN: 0300072759 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Permanent Campaign and Its Future by Norman J. Ornstein, Thomas E. Mann ISBN: 0844741345 Publisher: The AEI Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy by Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook, Benjamin I. Page ISBN: 0195149343 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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