POLS 1602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: The Literary Digest
22 Oct 2018
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Pols 1602 lecture 13 10/17/18 | written by lilly. The gov"t does not have to listen to everyone who does not vote or do not care. The well-informed and the politically active are more likely to be heeded. Government changes public opinion surely as public opinion changes public opinion. Domesticating public opinion - at least 5 ways. Make sure the public wants what we want . : mass educational institutions and systems are key, encourage property ownership, entitlement programs like ss, medicare. Get back a small increment each year of your money. Polling - insidious institution - changes the character of public opinion itself. Huh: exaggerate salience (opinions that are actually important to people in the first place, subsidizes passive expression, unlike voting, rioting, etc. It costs nothing to answer a poll: your opinion in a poll is equal to someone who actually cares. No claim of an exact match between poll and the population.
