Overview
- Explores the practice and politics of polling
- Develops a model to portray the selection and use of opinion polls in the media
- Focuses on the process of bringing polls to the public, rather than the polls themselves
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This book is about how opinion polls are reported in the media. Opinions polls are not reported in the media as unfiltered numbers, and some opinion polls are not reported at all. This volume demonstrates how opinion polls travel through several stages that eventually turn boring numbers into biased news in the media. The framework offered in this book helps to understand how some polls end up in the news coverage, and which systemic biases abound in the news media reports of opinion polls. In the end, a change narrative will be prominent in the reporting of opinion polls which contributes to what the general public sees and shares. The findings cover journalists, politicians, experts and the public, and how they all share a strong preference for change.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Erik Gahner Larsen is Senior Scientific Adviser at the Conflict Analysis Research Centre, University of Kent, UK. He has conducted multiple research projects on the coverage of opinion polls in the media, and his research has been published in journals such as the British Journal of Political Science and The International Journal of Press/Politics.
Zoltán Fazekas is Associate Professor of Business and Politics, with focus on quantitative methods in the Department of International Economics, Government and Business at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. His research is at the intersection of electoral behavior, psychology, and communication; it has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Communication, and the Journal of Communication, among others.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reporting Public Opinion
Book Subtitle: How the Media Turns Boring Polls into Biased News
Authors: Erik Gahner Larsen, Zoltán Fazekas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75350-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75349-8Published: 01 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75352-8Published: 02 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75350-4Published: 31 July 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 134
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, Political Communication, Comparative Politics, Electoral Politics, Media Studies