![]() | Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America Subjects: PUBLIC OPINION -- UNITED STATES; PUBLIC OPINION POLLS; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION -- UNITED STATES; REPRESENTATION GOVERNMENT AND REPRESENTATION -- UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES -- RACE RELATIONS -- GOVERNMENT POLICY -- PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC WELFARE -- UNITE; Over the past century, opinion polls have come to pervade American politics. Despite their shortcomings, the notion prevails that polls broadly represent public sentiment. But do they? In Silent Voices , Adam Berinsky presents a provocative argument that the very process of collecting information on public preferences through surveys may bias our picture of those preferences. In particular, he focuses on the many respondents who say they "don't know" when asked for their views on the political issues of the day. Adam J. Berinsky is Associate Professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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