Research Catalog

Title

The voice of the people : public opinion and democracy / James S. Fishkin.

Author

Fishkin, James S.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, c1995.

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Description

x, 204 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Political participation > United States
• Democracy > United States
• Public opinion > United States
• Democracy
• Public Opinion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Magic Town -- Who Speaks for Me? -- Out of the Cave? -- New Beginnings -- A Voice from Rhode Island -- What Should Representatives Do? -- The Most Natural and Simple Idea -- Counting People Equally -- Deliberation: Thinking Through the Issues Together -- Participation -- Avoiding Tyranny: The Energy That Reforges Democracy -- Small-Scale Democracy -- The Founders' Vision -- The Anti-Federalist Dissent -- "Like a Burglar": Informal Processes of Reform -- Bryce's Prophecy: Government by Public Opinion -- Gallup's Answer -- Opinions and Pseudo-Opinions in the Echo Chamber -- A Rational Public? -- The American Process: A Machine That Transforms Itself -- Whose Declaration of Independence? -- All Men? From Douglass to Lincoln versus Douglas -- From Paper Rights to Voting Rights -- The Quest for Voting Equality -- The Declaration of Sentiments -- Whose America? How Do We Come to Support It? -- America's Town Meeting of the Air -- Toward Civic Engagement -- Airing the People's Agenda -- The deliberative poll: bringing deliberation to democracy -- Appendix. The first deliberative poll: summary of results -- Notes -- Index.

ISBN

0300065566 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95034620^

OCLC

• 32852983
• SCSB-10117123

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library