Applying Public Opinion in Governance: The Uses and Future of Public Opinion in Managing Government

by Scott Bennett

Book Overview

This book explores how public opinion is used to design, monitor and evaluate government programmes in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Using information collected from the media and from international practitioners in the public opinion field, as well as interviews in each of the 4 countries, the author describes how views of public opinion and governance differ significantly between elites and the general public. Bennett...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319854577
• ISBN13: 9783319854571
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"