What is Public Opinion and How Do we Study it
What is public opinion? How do we measure public opinion? What role does public opinion play in democracy?
Readings
You can download assigned articles for this week here
Achen, C. H. and Bartels, L. M. (2017). Democracy for realists: Why elections do not produce responsive government. Princeton University Press Chapter 1-2
Berinsky, A. J. (2017). Measuring Public Opinion with Surveys. Annual Review of Political Science, 20(1):309–329
Optional Andrew Gelman’s post: Why are we making probabilistic election fore- casts? (and why don’t we put so much effort into them?)
Slides
Lectures
Monday
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