![]() | Silent Voices Subjects: Vietnam War 1961-1975; Public welfare; Representative government and representation; Political participation; Public opinion polls.; Public opinion; 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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