Although public sentiments concerning alcohol issues have long been a subject of historical and social research, public opinion in relation to specific alcohol policies has only recently emerged as a research area in its own right. In the late 1970s, Goodstadt et al. stated, "[a]pparently, no sophisticated studies of public attitudes towards [policies regarding] the pricing of alcoholic beverag...

Public opinion often depends on how elites choose to frame issues. For example, citizens’ opinions about a Ku Klux Klan rally may depend on whether elites frame the event as a free-speech issue or a public safety issue. Past research has focused largely on documenting the size of framing effects in uncontested settings. By contrast, there has been little research on framing in competitive envir...

The article deals with theoretical and applied problems that exist today in the field of interaction between government bodies public opinion. At end last century, existence sociology opinion was questioned by many Russian sociologists, who considered to be a kind state consciousness did not have specific scientific categories. Such paradigm made it difficult find ways effectively interact same...

in democratic governments, major basis of political power is people intention, and government is manifestation of national intention, and it's legitimacy is caused of public intention and will. in democratic governments, is applied political power through active political participation, that base on various political institutions of society is setting by public opinion and under people sup...