Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People
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Is public opinion a beloved but unreal myth like the unicorn? Or a thing out there in the garden like an elephant, of which sight-impaired, competing methodologists measure different parts? Or a fuzzy set of probabilities like the electron, both wave and particle, perhaps of inherently uncertain location? Or does it include all of the above? ...If we want to measure public opinion, we need to decide which of several meanings we are interested in. – Allen Barton (1998)
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