Numbered Voices
How Opinion Polling Has Shaped American Politics
Introduction
1: Quantification and Rationality
2: Numbers and Symbolic Politics
3: Techniques of Opinion Expression and Measurement
4: Partisan Politics and the Symbolic Use of Straw Polls, 1856-1936
5: Congressmen, Journalists, and Opinion Assessment, 1930-1950
6: Contemporary Public Opinion Research
7: Crowd Estimation and Public Opinion
8: Opinion Quantification and Democracy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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