Invisible sovereign : imagining public opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction /

"Even today, with sophisticated surveys and computer-produced margins of error, we have trouble gauging the elusive voice we call 'public opinion,' but no one questions its importance in a democracy. In this insightful new study, Mark G. Schmeller sets out to recreate or approximate the nature of pu...

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Päätekijä: Schmeller, Mark G., 1967- (Tekijä)
Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen E-kirja
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
Sarja:New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
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Linkit:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Sisällysluettelo:
  • Introduction : public opinion and the American political imagination
  • The moral economy of opinion
  • The political economy of opinion
  • Partisan manufactories of public sentiment
  • The importance of having opinion
  • The fatal force of public opinion
  • Irrepressible conflicts, impending crises
  • Conclusion : corn-pone opinion
  • Essay on sources.