Election Polls, the News Media, and Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Election Polls, the News Media, and Democracy write by Paul J. Lavrakas. This book was released on 2000. Election Polls, the News Media, and Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an introduction to modern polling. Focusing primarily on the 1996 US presidential election campaign, scholars and media pollsters address such topics as political campaigns, elections, voting behaviour and public opinion, as well as the news media's role in elections and democracy.
Presidential Polls And The News Media
Presidential Polls And The News Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Presidential Polls And The News Media write by Paul J Lavrakas. This book was released on 2019-06-26. Presidential Polls And The News Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most news media are "data rich but analysis poor" when it comes to election polling. Since election polls clearly have the power to influence campaigns and election post-mortems, it is important that "spin" not take precedence over significance in the reporting of poll results. In this volume, experts in the media and in academe challenge the conventional approaches that most news media take in their poll-based campaign coverage. The book reports new research findings on news coverage of recent presidential elections and provides a myriad of examples of how journalists and news media executives can improve their analysis of poll data, thereby better serving our political processes.
Media Polls in American Politics
Media Polls in American Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Media Polls in American Politics write by Thomas E. Mann. This book was released on 2010-12-01. Media Polls in American Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Public opinion pools have become staples of contemporary political reporting, and most national news organizations have sophisticated in-house polling operations. The increased number and quality of polls conducted and reported by the press give the public a chance to help see the agendas of campaigns and define the meaning of elections. Yet competition and the need for fast responses to events often lead news organizations to misuse polls in a way that diminishes rather than enhances democracy. Polls can shape public opinion as well as describe it; they can set the news agenda and influence the coverage of political events in ways hostile to a constructive dialogue between citizens and their leaders. In this volume, media specialist and well-known reporters provide a comprehensive survey of the problems and possibilities of polling by media organizations in the 1990s and beyond. Thomas Mann and Gary Orren analyze the strengths and weaknesses of media polls and their impact on American politics. Everett Carll Ladd and John Benson discuss the extraordinary growth of polling in news organizations for the past two decades. Kathleen Frankovic addresses the tension between the needs of news organizations for quick results and the need to preserve the standards of survey research. Henry Brady and Gary Orren examine the most serious methodological problems with news media polls. Michael Kagay explores the sources of well-publicized variability in poll findings. Michael Traugott considers the complicated question of how polls influence the public and whether their effects are benign or harmful. Finally, E. J. Dionne, Jr. examines media organizations' obsession with polls and the impact polls have on reporters. The authors offer recommendations for improving the conduct and use of media polls so that citizens can make better informed and enlightened decisions about the public agenda.
Presidential Polls and the News Media
Presidential Polls and the News Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Presidential Polls and the News Media write by PAUL J. TRAUGOTT LAVRAKAS (MICHAEL. MILLER, PETER V.). This book was released on 2019-06-30. Presidential Polls and the News Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most news media are "data rich but analysis poor" when it comes to election polling. Since election polls clearly have the power to influence campaigns and election post-mortems, it is important that "spin" not take precedence over significance in the reporting of poll results. In this volume, experts in the media and in academe challenge the conventional approaches that most news media take in their poll-based campaign coverage. The book reports new research findings on news coverage of recent presidential elections and provides a myriad of examples of how journalists and news media executives can improve their analysis of poll data, thereby better serving our political processes.
Opinion Polls and the Media
Opinion Polls and the Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opinion Polls and the Media write by C. Holtz-Bacha. This book was released on 2012-04-05. Opinion Polls and the Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Opinion Polls and the Media provides the most comprehensive analysis to date on the relationship between the media, opinion polls, and public opinion. Looking at the extent to which the media, through their use of opinion polls, both reflect and shape public opinion, it brings together a team of leading scholars and analyzes theoretical and methodological approaches to the media and their use of opinion polls. The contributors explore how the media use opinion polls in a range of countries across the world, and analyze the effects and uses of opinion polls by the public as well as political actors.
