The Public Opinion Process: How the People Speak

by Irving Crespi and Crespi

What is public opinion? How can we best study it?

This work presents a "process model" that answers these questions by defining public opinion in a way that also identifies an approach to studying it. The model serves as a framework into which the findings of empirical research are integrated, producing a comprehensive understanding of public opinion that encompasses the congeries of middle-range theories that have emerged from empirical research...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805826653
• ISBN13: 9780805826654
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"