POL_SC 1100 Lecture : Monday, September 17, 2012.docx

• School: Mizzou
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL_SC 1100
• Professor: Horner

Document Summary

Public opinion in normative perspective: normative how things ought to be, our system has a conflict between leadership and representation, we want our elected officials to do what we want, but we also want them to have leadership, delegate makes their decisions based on what they think people want (public opinion, trustee makes their decisions based on what they think is right (their own judgment, politicos a mix between the two: pays attention to public opinion when they think it is important, and then make their own decisions when they think they need to, a main problem of political opinion in representative government is us whether we choose to be persuaded or manipulated, we should always be cautious that we aren"t being manipulated/tricked.