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...already know. But his words still conveyed information. The information was that all the other people now knew the same thing that each one of them did.” Social change often is a collective action problem: no one is willing to state their knowledge, belief, or opinion??against segregation, for instance—until they know others share...
These highest state courts are meant to be bastions of political and social order. They function as an essential, stable check on the state’s other governmental institutions, themselves self-interested and beholden to popular opinion??the legislature and the governor’s office. Both of these institutions face one undying concern—re-election—which influences their decisions. And rightly so: these institutions are meant to reflect the interests of their constituencies...
...general, Americans who are highly educated, well-connected, urban, or any of the above—a demographic with an enormous influence on both policy and public opinion??are wont to lament or lambaste their government and culture in a manner unthinkable to the elites of other developed countries. In Japan, it took a decade of recession and stagnation for the nation’s leaders to accept a transition away from the “Japanese model” of corporatism and state subsidies. The mere suggestion of changes in the famously cozy French employment laws sparked...
...schedule of thesis writing, job hunting, and extracurricular commitments. She is now in remission. Alford’s cherishes her ability to spur change and influence her peers. “I’m a person who’s always speaking out, always giving my honest opinion??which sometimes gets me into trouble,” Alford says. “That’s who I always want to be: the person at the mic drawing attention to things I think are important...
...work in Muncie.Gallup and Roper trained Americans to answer personal questions about themselves, their preferences, and their ideas, as a means to getting at the “common” man’s thought. As Igo puts it, the pollsters gathered “atomized bits of opinion?? and then “[grafted] them together so that they might speak for ‘America.’”Despite the polling technique of using a sample to represent the whole, pollsters also presented themselves as champions of the people...