General introduction

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I. From public opinion to the phantom public: Opinion and advertising

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The nature of public opinion
Extract from The American Commonwealth, Holmes Beach, Fla: Gaunt Inc., 2010. (First edition: 1888)
James Bryce

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The nature of public opinion
Extract from Public Opinion and Popular Government, New York, Longman and Green, 1913, pp. 3-27
Abbott Lawrence Lowell

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Public opinion and social organization
Extract from Social Organization. A Study of the Larger Mind, New York, Schocken Books, 1962, chapter XII, pp. 121-125. (First edition: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909)
Charles Horton Cooley

II. From the phantom public to the public sphere: Opinion and rationality

Page 61 to 66

Why does democracy need a public? Dewey versus Lippmann
Presentation of texts by Walter Lippmann, “The phantom public” (1925) and John Dewey, “The Public and its problems” (1927)
Joëlle Zask

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The phantom public
Extract from The Phantom Public, McMillan & Co., 1925, pp. 13-39
Walter Lippmann

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The public and its problems
Extract from The Public and its Problems (1927), quoted in John Dewey. The Later Works, vol. 2, edited by Jo Ann Boydston and associates, Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press (1st ed., 1977), paperbound, 1983
John Dewey

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The rational public and democracy
Extract fromReconsidering the Democratic Public, edited by George E. Marcus and Russel L. Hanson, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993, pp. 35-64
Benjamin I. Page, Robert Y. Shapiro

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Rethinking the public sphere: A contribution to the critique of democracy as it really is
Extract from Habermas and the Public Sphere, edited by Craig Calhoun, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1992, pp. 109-142
Nancy Fraser

III. Opinion polls and the transformation of public opinion: Quantification, representativeness, and deliberation

Page 157 to 166

Government by public opinion
Extract from The American Commonwealth,Holmes Beach, Fla: Gaunt Inc., 2010. (First edition: 1888)
James Bryce

Page 167 to 180

Opinion polls and democracy
Extract from Public Opinion in a Democracy, Stafford Little Lectures, Princeton University, 1939
George Gallup

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Opinion polls and the transformation of public opinion
Extract from The Captive Public: How Mass Opinion Promotes State Power, New York, Basic Books, 1986
Benjamin Ginsberg

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Towards a deliberative democracy: The experimentation of an ideal
Extract from Citizen Competence and Democratic Institutions, edited by Stephen L. Elkin and Karol Edward Soltan, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999, chapter XII, pp. 279-290
James S. Fishkin

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Rethinking opinion
Extract from The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 91-96
John Zaller

Varia

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Readings

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Readings

Founded and directed by Dominique Wolton, the aim of this journal is to study, using an interdisciplinary approach, the relationships that communication has with individuals, technology, cultures, and societies. A third of the journal’s board members come from outside of France. Read more...

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