Why Estimates of the Impact of Public Opinion on Public Policy are Too High: Empirical and Theoretical Implications.
Statistical studies often show public opinion strongly affecting public policy. But the studies may overestimate the effect because they focus on issues — those especially important to the public — on which governments are most likely to be responsive. This article considers what the opinion-policy...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces (University of North Carolina Press) Vol. 84; no. 4; pp. 2273 - 2290 |
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Oxford University Press / UK
June 2006
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