Weekly published opinion polling was pitched as a tool for legislators
Evidence
E.P. Neumann from the Institute of Opinion Research in Allensbach took this idea a logical step further when he spoke enthusiastically about the results of the Gallup Institute’s surveys, which were being published weekly in over a hundred newspapers, and said that members of parliament, the representatives of the people, should ultimately reap the benefits of opinion research. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 478
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior material on the social control of impersonal trust and on how reputational information gets institutionalized. — connects to: Poll-driven politics is undemocratic because it bypasses public opinion formation — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 99; Aggregate polling models cannot reveal how individual citizens change their views — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1566; Numerically accurate polling can still be rated severely misleading when framing distorts context — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 51
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Poll-driven politics is undemocratic because it bypasses public opinion formation — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 99; Aggregate polling models cannot reveal how individual citizens change their views — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1566; Numerically accurate polling can still be rated severely misleading when framing distorts context — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 51
Broader Connections
- Poll-driven politics is undemocratic because it bypasses public opinion formation
#complicates(0.72) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 99 - Aggregate polling models cannot reveal how individual citizens change their views
#complicates(0.71) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1566