Constructing public opinion : how political elites do what they like and why we seem to go along with it / Justin Lewis.
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Why numbers matter and why we should be suspicious of them
- Who's in and who's out: public opinion polls as a cultural form
- Suppressing dissent: the media representation of public opinion
- Getting the right response? Media influence on public opinion
- What are opinions and where do they come from?
- The ideology of assumptions
- Flickering the embers of consent: public opinion and the military industrial complex
- Selling unrepresentative democracy
- Conclusion: hegemony and its discontents.