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Public Opinion and Public Policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Abstract The key function of representative democracy is to provide a mechanism through which public opinion and public policy are regularly connected. On one hand, there should be policy representation; public preferences for policy should be reflected in policy itself.
Christopher Wlezien, Stuart Soroka
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Social media as public opinion: How journalists use social media to represent public opinion

open access: yesJournalism, 2019
Public opinion, as necessary a concept it is to the underpinnings of democracy, is a socially constructed representation of the public that is forged by the methods and data from which it is derived, as well as how it is understood by those tasked with ...
Shannon C. McGregor
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Public Opinion and Criminal Justice Policy: Theory and Research

open access: yesannual review of criminology, 2019
This article reviews evidence for the effects of public opinion on court decision-making, capital punishment policy and use, correctional expenditures, and incarceration rates.
Justin T. Pickett
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Religious harmony and tolerance of the urban residents of Kazakhstan: Results of the sociological research

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2019
Researchers believe that in recent decades in Kazakhstan the religious situation has changed, which was manifested in an increase of the number of believers who follow religious precepts and build their lifestyle according to them.
A B Shabdenova, G T Alimbekova
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Religiosity of the urban community in Kazakhstan

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2020
Religious values as the most important component of the worldview can significantly affect various aspects of human life - from everyday practices to political preferences. The analysis of changes in religiosity shows that in the post-Soviet space, there
G. T. Alimbekova   +2 more
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Public Opinion

open access: yesThe Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1923
"Reprinted . February 1947." ; Introduction.--Approaches to the world outside.--Stereotypes.--Interests.--The making of a common will.--The image of democracy.--Newspapers.--Organized intelligence. ; Mode of access: Internet.
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Lived Poverty and the Fate of African Democracies

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Political Science
In comparative politics, economic development is a requisite to democracy (Lipset, 1959).   Democracy is deemed to fail in less developed countries as poverty has proven to be detrimental to democratic performance. This study offers a perspective on the
Edson Ntodwa   +2 more
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A Data-Driven Approach for University Public Opinion Analysis and Its Applications

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
In the era of mobile Internet, college students increasingly tend to express their opinions and views through online social media; furthermore, social media influence the value judgments of college students.
Miao He, Chunyan Ma, Rui Wang
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China’s social credit systems and public opinion: Explaining high levels of approval

open access: yesNew Media & Society, 2019
A variety of commercial and local government social credit systems (SCSs) are now being implemented in China in order to steer the behavior of Chinese individuals, businesses, social organizations, and government agencies.
Genia Kostka
semanticscholar   +1 more source

COMMON NOTION ON STABILITY: EXPERIMENTAL DIACHRONIC STUDY

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2016
The results of experimental study of common notion on stability (2015) were compared with those of analogous study (2002). The goal of the diachronic study carried out for 13 years apart was to find out common and specific features in the perception of ...
E. N. Goots, L. A. Pautova
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