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Kilburn, H. Whitt. "Personal Values and Public Opinion." Social Science Quarterly 90, no. 4 (December 2009): 868–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6237.2009.00667.x.
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Chen, Ying, Andreas Frei, and Hani S. Mahmassani. "From Personal Attitudes to Public Opinion." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2430, no. 1 (January 2014): 28–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2430-04.
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Porten-Cheé, Pablo, and Christiane Eilders. "The effects of likes on public opinion perception and personal opinion." Communications 45, no. 2 (May 26, 2020): 223–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/commun-2019-2030.
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AbstractDrawing on the spiral of silence theory and heuristic information processing, we contend that individuals use likes as sources for assessing public opinion. We further argue that individuals may even adapt their personal opinions to the tenor reflected in those cues. The assumptions were tested using data from an experiment involving 501 participants, who encountered media items on two issues with or without likes. The findings show that respondents inferred public opinion from the media bias if it was supported by likes, however, only in cases of high levels of fear of social isolation. Respondents further adapted their personal opinion to the media bias if it was supported by likes.
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Hedley, Steve. "Group personal injury litigation and public opinion." Legal Studies 14, no. 1 (March 1994): 70–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121x.1994.tb00565.x.
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From within the law school, group personal injury litigation may be approached in various ways. Until very recently it was, indeed, ignored as an irrelevant foreign development: not perhaps ‘it could never happen here’, but at least ‘it hasn’t happened here, yet’. Now that it plainly has happened, it is nonetheless possible to ignore it. The question whether the snail in my ginger beer bottle can give rise to an action is not, in principle, affected by what other people found when they opened theirs; if it is said that in practice it cannot but be affected, the retort would be that the law schools need not concern themselves with the sort of practicalities involved. Indeed, group litigation barely rates a mention in most practitioners’ texts either; so many academics feel excused from considering it all, even as a mere footnote to the general run of cases.
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Soffer, Oren, and Galit Gordoni. "The Role of User Comments in Estimation of the Public Opinion Climate and Perceived Support for One’s Opinion." International Journal of Public Opinion Research 32, no. 3 (October 21, 2019): 569–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edz036.
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Abstract This article examines how user comments influence assessment of public opinion climate and perceived support for one’s opinion. The effects of user-comment sentiment (positive vs. negative) and of user-comment content (with or without personal exemplification) were tested with an online experiment (n = 1,510). Results show that user-comment effects on estimates of public opinion depend mainly on the sentiment of the comments and not on their framing as opinions with or without personal exemplification. Negative comments significantly reduce readers’ estimation of public opinion support of the issue dealt with by the article and affect the perceived support of one’s opinion. Study results refer to the possible dangers in user comments deliberate manipulation in democratic public discussion.
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Dror, Klaus. "TLVs—a personal opinion." American Journal of Industrial Medicine 13, no. 5 (1988): 617–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajim.4700130515.
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Zerback, Thomas, Carsten Reinemann, and Angela Nienierza. "Who’s Hot and Who’s Not? Factors Influencing Public Perceptions of Current Party Popularity and Electoral Expectations." International Journal of Press/Politics 20, no. 4 (July 29, 2015): 458–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1940161215596986.
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This study analyzes how perceptions of the popularity of political parties (i.e., the current opinion climate) and expectations about parties’ future electoral performance (i.e., the future opinion climate) are formed. Theoretically, the paper integrates research on the sources of public opinion perception and empirically draws on a representative survey carried out before the 2013 German federal election. We show that the perceived media slant and opinions perceived in one’s personal surroundings are closely related to perceptions of party popularity, whereas individual recall of poll results and personal opinions about the parties are not. However, poll results are shown to be the single most important predictor of expectations about the parties’ future electoral success.
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Kowalewski, Jennifer, and Maxwell McCombs. "Measuring public opinion formation." Fifty years of agenda-setting research 3, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 43–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/asj.18012.kow.
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Abstract For the past 50 years since the seminal agenda-setting study, scholars have continued to make strides in understanding the importance mass communication plays in public opinion formation. Although scholars have measured both first- and second-level agenda setting often using open-ended response, more close-ended measures might assist in measuring the theory, adding to the rich data. This experimental study directly compared open-ended responses shown to gauge an agenda-setting effect with close-ended responses to enhance the assessment of both first- and second-level agenda setting. The findings identified close-ended scales, including news salience, social salience, personal salience, and feelings salience, that add to the precision of measuring the salience of issues and attributes, indicating we have alternative measures to gauge agenda setting.
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Beckers, Kathleen. "What Vox Pops Say and How That Matters: Effects of Vox Pops in Television News on Perceived Public Opinion and Personal Opinion." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 96, no. 4 (April 23, 2019): 980–1003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077699019843852.
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Interviews with ordinary people on the street are commonplace in everyday news coverage. These vox pops often voice an explicit opinion or talk about personal experiences. Editorial guidelines exist about the way they should be introduced, as they are not representative of the population. Drawing on an experiment using television news items, we test the influence of vox pop characteristics on perceived public opinion and personal opinion. Results show that vox pop viewpoints have a substantial influence. Moreover, vox pops stating opinions are more influential than vox pops giving personal testimonies. No influence was found of the vox pops’ introduction.
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Karlsson, David, Sören Holmberg, and Lennart Weibull. "Solidarity or self-interest? Public opinion in relation to alcohol policies in Sweden." Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 37, no. 2 (February 27, 2020): 105–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1455072520904644.
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Aim: The aim of this article is to study how people sometimes accept policies that could in a narrow sense be seen as in conflict with their own self-interest. Design: The study is based on survey data relating to public opinion on alcohol policy in Sweden targeted at people aged 16–85 years 2016–2017. Among the 3400 people questioned, the response rate was 52%. Results: The results show that people’s perception of the problematic societal consequences of alcohol, in combination with ideological norms regarding the responsibility of individuals, is much more important in explaining public opinion than self-interest factors. It is the view that there is a problem at the societal level, rather than at the personal level, that is most essential for explaining opinions on alcohol restrictions. General knowledge of alcohol-related matters has some effect, whereas personal experiences of close affiliates excessive drinking does not seem to color the opinions expressed. Conclusion: Support for restrictive alcohol policies in Swedish public opinion is mainly founded on norms of solidarity and astute problem analyses at the societal level, and to a much lesser extent on egoism and personal experiences.
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Smith, Jeffery A. "Lincoln's other War: Public Opinion, Press Issues, and Personal Pleas." American Journalism 26, no. 4 (October 2009): 87–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2009.10677746.
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Olmastroni, Francesco. "Public Opinion Research in Political Science." Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science 16 (October 1, 2010): 7–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.22151/politikon.16.1.
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Since the late nineteenth century, the tension generated by the lumping of subjective and personal opinion with objective and common public as a single concept is matter that urged scholars to provide a comprehensive definition of public opinion. This article is intended to trace the history of the modern study of public opinion in political science. It begins with a description of the early theoretical works and their attempts to investigate the mass public through systematic and normative analyses, and then focuses on the individual and psychological dimension examined by contemporary empirical works. The article draws some conclusions on both the main achievements and the most manifested limitations that this branch of political analysis must overcome in order to better understand the relationship between public opinion and democratic governance.
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Lahav, Gallya. "Public Opinion Toward Immigration in the European Union." Comparative Political Studies 37, no. 10 (December 2004): 1151–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010414004269826.
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The literature on immigration has been divided with regard to the constraints, particularly of public opinion, on EU policy cooperation. Analysts have suggested that there is a disjuncture between public opinion and policy developments and that liberal immigration policies have emerged because negative public opinion is not factored into elite decision making or institutional developments. Comparing public opinion data derived from Eurobarometer surveys with demographic trends and EU initiatives, this article questions the “disjuncture” premises by evaluating the nature of mass attitudes and its impact on policy harmonization in the EU. In bridging the attitudinal-policy gap, the article assesses (a) the extent to which publics are ignorant or informed and (b) the distinct effects of personal versus general societal conditions as they motivate immigration attitudes and policy preferences. The conclusions have implications for immigration cooperation in the European Union, with policy outcomes that are more compatible with public attitudes.
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Alawaisheh, Ahmad Youseef Tumah, and Dr Rudina Ibraheem Alrefai. "Violation of the Jordanian Personal Status Law No. 15 of 2019 of the opinion of the Hanafis in the ruling on forced divorce, pursuant to Sharia policy." Journal of Social Sciences (COES&RJ-JSS) 10, no. 3 (July 1, 2021): 317–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.25255/jss.2021.10.3.317.330.
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Families in general are subjected to many external influences and pressures especially the husband, who is usually under threats and compulsion, to forcibly divorce his wife. This divorce might occur for the sake of greed of her money, beauty, or settle down some personal issues through inflicting punishment or peeve her husband. The present study aims at defining forced divorce and clarify the scholars’ opinions of forced divorce along with clarifying the most likely opinion and the opinion adopted by the Jordanian Personal Status Law No. 15 of 2019 by answering the following question: What is the reason for the law changing the opinion of Imam Abu Hanifa to the opinion of most jurists on the issue of forced divorce, and what is the interest achieved by This turn off? What is the role of legitimate politics in that? To answer this question, the researcher used the comparative analytical method as the main research design. The study concluded that forced divorce does not occur, which is the opinion held by the public, due to its consistency with the spirit and purposes of Islamic law. This opinion is also consistent with the legitimate interest and policy, which is what the Jordanian law adopted in contravention of the opinion of Imam Abu Hanifa to the opinion of the public as it achieves the general interests and legitimate policy.
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Hou, Jundong, Tongyang Yu, and Renbin Xiao. "Structure Reversal of Online Public Opinion for the Heterogeneous Health Concerns under NIMBY Conflict Environmental Mass Events in China." Healthcare 8, no. 3 (September 6, 2020): 324. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8030324.
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Public opinions play an important role in the formation of Not in My Back Yard (NIMBY) conflict environmental mass events. Due to the continual interactions between affected groups and the corresponding government responses surrounding the public interests related to health, online public opinion structure reversal arises frequently in NIMBY conflict events, which pose a serious threat to social public security. To explore the underlying mechanism, this paper introduces an improved dynamic model which considers multiple heterogeneities in health concerns and social power of individuals and in government’s ability. The experimental results indicate that the proposed model can provide an accurate description of the entire process of online public opinion structure reversal in NIMBY conflict environmental mass incidents on the Internet. In particular, the proportion of the individual agents without health interest appeals will delay the online public opinion structure reversal, and the upper threshold remains within regulatory limits from 0.4 to 0.5. Unlike some previous results that show that the guiding powers of the opinion leaders varied over its ratio in a fixed-sized group, our results suggest that the impact of opinion leaders is of no significant difference for the time of structure reversal after it increased to about 6%. Furthermore, a double threshold effect of online structure reversal during the government’s response process was observed. The findings are beneficial for understanding and explaining the process of online public opinion structure reversal in NIMBY conflict environmental mass incidents, and provides theoretical and practical implications for guiding public or personal health opinions on the Internet and for a governments’ effective response to them.
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Carrión, Julio F., and Stuart J. Kaufman. "Public opinion and the end of apartheid." International Area Studies Review 21, no. 2 (February 13, 2018): 97–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2233865918758599.
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Why did whites in South Africa come to support the dismantling of the apartheid system that gave them a monopoly of political power? We use a reformulated version of symbolic politics to address this puzzle, showing that white attitudes toward political change were primarily driven by symbolic predispositions regarding race, ideology, party, and specific leaders, as well as various sorts of threat perceptions. Strong attachments to the National Party and de Klerk, low perceptions of threat, more tolerant racial attitudes, and more socially and politically liberal values increased the likelihood of whites supporting policies consistent with the ending of apartheid. We also find that assessments of the economy, both personal and national, have no influence on this attitude. We use South Africa’s Human Sciences Research Council data collected during the crucial 1991–1992 period.
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Wojcieszak, M., and V. Price. "What Underlies the False Consensus Effect? How Personal Opinion and Disagreement Affect Perception of Public Opinion." International Journal of Public Opinion Research 21, no. 1 (March 1, 2009): 25–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edp001.
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Kim, Sojung Claire, Kang Namkoong, Timothy Fung, Kwangjun Heo, and Albert Gunther. "Understanding public opinion change of HPV vaccination controversy." Health Education 118, no. 5 (August 6, 2018): 402–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/he-01-2018-0006.
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Purpose Although Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is the most commonly diagnosed sexually transmitted infection in the USA, much controversy exists with respect to HPV vaccination, especially among parents of adolescents. Previous research has shown that exemplars in the media influence public opinion estimates about controversial social issues. However, little is known about the underlying psychological processes of how exemplars influence public opinion formation. The purpose of this paper is to systematically explore such psychological processes based on the projection theory. To this end, the important yet controversial public health issue, the mandatory HPV vaccination, was chosen. Design/methodology/approach A two-factor (exemplar vs proportion), between-subject experiment was conducted using online newspaper articles as main stimuli. A total of 138 participants completed the study. The analytical framework comprised the Sobel test with the Bootstrap method and a series of Ordinary Least Square hierarchical regression analyses. Findings The higher the proportion of exemplars against the HPV vaccination in a news article was, the greater the number of individuals who became opposed to it was. And the high personal opposition translated into negative public opinion change estimation. Originality/value The findings indicate that news exemplars may influence individuals’ personal opinion formation, and, in turn, contribute to their estimations of future public opinion climate, as suggested by the projection theory. Theoretical, methodological and practical implications for journalists, health educators and policy makers are discussed.
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Chmielewska-Szlajfer, Helena. "Opinion dailies versus Facebook fan pages: the case of Poland’s surprising 2015 presidential elections." Media, Culture & Society 40, no. 6 (February 6, 2018): 938–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443718756065.
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The following study explores the effect of social media visibility on public discussion and, possibly, on the results of the 2015 presidential elections in Poland, unexpectedly won by Andrzej Duda. Instead of newspaper analyses and polls, Facebook interactions proved more accurate in predicting the final results. In the study, focus is laid on two key sources of visibility of opinion that emerged during the campaign: major daily newspapers, which provide space for opinion only to selected writers; and presidential candidates’ Facebook fan pages, which offer broad visibility to Facebook users’ opinions. The proposed interpretation of this discrepancy is that of a major shift in making public opinion more self-expressive and personal: public discussion is formed ‘in between’ rationality and emotion, publicness and privacy. The 2015 presidential elections in Poland reveal that this ‘in-between’ emerged in people’s Facebook activity, and it uncovered a public affect which translated into election results.
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Wu, Charles K. S. "HOW PUBLIC OPINION SHAPES TAIWAN'S SUNFLOWER MOVEMENT." Journal of East Asian Studies 19, no. 3 (November 2019): 289–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jea.2019.30.
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AbstractThe 2014 Sunflower Movement succeeded in blocking Taiwan's Congress from ratifying the Cross-Strait Services Trade Agreement (CSSTA), a bill that proposed to liberalize trade with China. Since most of the participants in this movement were students and NGO members, they had limited economic and political resources to influence policy change, which makes their success in stopping a trade deal remarkable. Many attribute this important success to an elite alliance with politicians inside the government, fueled by a personal rivalry between political elites. However, I argue that changing public opinion is the more important force behind the creation of the alliance. With original data from interviews with political elites, their staff members, and activists in Taiwan, in addition to secondary information, I confirm public opinion to be the major reason for the political alliance. This case illustrates that in some circumstances, public opinion outweighs the importance of elite rivalry in influencing political elite decision-making, and it could represent a key mechanism of democratic policy-making.
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Campisi, Tiziana, Nurten Akgün, Dario Ticali, and Giovanni Tesoriere. "Exploring Public Opinion on Personal Mobility Vehicle Use: A Case Study in Palermo, Italy." Sustainability 12, no. 13 (July 7, 2020): 5460. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12135460.
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The Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) process deals with barriers to improve accessibility and quality of life in urban mobility. Public opinion is highly essential for this process because it presents the real needs of road users. This paper illustrates the influence of public opinion on using Private Mobility Vehicle (PMV) in urban. A survey was carried out with 400 participants in Palermo, Italy. The results suggested that there was heterogeneity in gender and age groups in subcategories which represented people who use, do not use, and completely reject, using PMVs in urban. In addition, it was explored that there was a statistically significant relationship at 95% confidence level between sociodemographic characteristics (gender and age groups) and public opinion on PMV using. Employment status was found as an important parameter in transport planning. It was also showed that there was an inconsistency between local and national results. The results suggested that sociodemographic characteristics and public opinion should be investigated in further studies. In addition, a participatory planning process should be carried out to monitor for reliable evaluation in urban transport planning.
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Dandan, Shi. "Public Perception Analysis of Hot Topics in Intellectual Property Based on Microblog Data." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2021 (July 2, 2021): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/8971666.
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Public opinion is a crucial factor for government policy making, implementation, evaluation, and social development. This paper analyzes the public opinion perception of intellectual property subject based on microblog data and puts forward the concept and calculation model for the breadth, depth, and comprehensive value of public perception. Then, taking the opinion evaluation in microblog platform as an example, this paper studies the public perception of intellectual property subject and illustrates the changing trend of public perception through related events in microblog. The results show that the four topics of trademark, intellectual property, copyright, and patent are the hot topics of public perception, the breadth, depth, and comprehensive value of public perception for the four topics fluctuated greatly, on the whole. In addition, when the content of microblog is related to personal benefits, business benefits, and personal interests, it can cause widespread public concern. Additionally, the public mainly participate in the dissemination of public opinion on intellectual property subject through forwarding. Finally, this paper puts forward some suggestions from the perspective of how to maximize the effect of intellectual property policy.
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Dong, Suyalatu. "A Class of Public Opinion Dissemination Model considering the Information Screening Mechanism." Security and Communication Networks 2021 (November 27, 2021): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6342976.
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This paper introduces an information screening mechanism based on the general SEIR model of public opinion dissemination in complex networks. Specifically, networks users screen the information disseminated in complex networks based on their knowledge reserve, life experience, and personal preferences. This screening mechanism filters the public opinion disseminated. Based on the quantitative analysis of this mechanism, we establish a new SEIR model of public opinion dissemination in complex networks. The simulation results on the Facebook network data set provide theoretical guidance for the formulation of effective public opinion suppression strategies.
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Boyle, Michael P. "Personal Perceptions and Perceived Public Opinion About Stuttering in the United States: Implications for Anti-Stigma Campaigns." American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 26, no. 3 (August 15, 2017): 921–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2017_ajslp-16-0191.
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Purpose This exploratory study was the first to obtain quantitative and qualitative data on both personal perceptions and perceived public opinion about stuttering in order to identify topics to include in anti-stigma programs for stuttering. Method Three-hundred ten adults in the United States completed a web survey that assessed knowledge about stuttering and attitudes toward people who stutter (PWS) with questions addressing personal perceptions (direct questions) and perceived public opinion (indirect questions). Results Many participants reported favorable personal perceptions of PWS regarding their intelligence, competence, and potential for success. However, most participants did not personally believe PWS were confident, and most believed they were shy. Perceived public opinion was more unfavorable as a majority agreed that the public is uncomfortable talking with PWS and that the public would recommend PWS avoid jobs requiring high speech demands and avoid talking to large audiences. A minority of participants agreed PWS are perceived publicly as capable or mentally healthy. Conclusions The survey demonstrated misunderstandings and negative perceptions of PWS, especially when measured with perceived public opinion. Results can increase our understanding of content areas that should be included in anti-stigma programs for stuttering and highlight different methods for analyzing public perceptions of stuttering.
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Blake, Donald E., Neil Guppy, and Peter Urmetzer. "Canadian Public Opinion and Environmental Action: Evidence from British Columbia." Canadian Journal of Political Science 30, no. 3 (September 1997): 451–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423900015973.
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AbstractPublic opinion regarding environmental issues has attracted considerable scholarly attention during the 1990s. Less attention has been paid to links between environmentally friendly attitudes and “green” behaviour and the degree to which behaviour is context or value-driven, especially in Canada. Using survey data from British Columbia, this article analyzes these links, paying particular attention to differences between public perceptions of local versus global environment, and how these concerns influence behaviour. The analysis also demonstrates the importance of distinguishing between different types of behaviour. While the crucial role of postmaterial values for three kinds of environmentally friendly behaviour is confirmed, other factors, particularly left/right ideological differences and personal financial circumstances emerge as significant explanatory variables. “Green consumer behaviour” is largely determined by local context. Local concerns also drive “green political activity,” but value differences are crucial as well. Left/right differences and personal financial circumstances are especially important in explaining “green pocketbook behaviour” — willingness to incur costs, either personally or through taxes, for environmental protection and enhancement.
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Hsu, Chia-Hsuan. "Environmental Education: Revealing Some Current Problems from Personal Opinion." Technium Social Sciences Journal 22 (August 9, 2021): 113–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v22i1.4200.
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Air and water pollution, wildlife habitat loss, soil desertification, and other environmental problems affect cities and the surrounding environment. Thus, increasing public environmental awareness and environmental literacy are essential for mitigating these problems. Although environmental education has been critical in solving problems that affect humans and the environment for more than five decades, the question remains whether the environment is improving or being degraded. Educators are devoted to popularizing environmental education, but as a result of many problems, people are gradually becoming paralyzed. Efficient methods of motivating people to perform environmentally friendly behaviors are required. Moreover, the term “environmental education” has been abused in some situations to receive government benefits. Thus, as an environmental educator and researcher, I provide opinions and reveal problems in environmental education.
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Kleymyonov, E. А. "Police in the public opinion of youth." POWER AND ADMINISTRATION IN THE EAST OF RUSSIA 94, no. 1 (2021): 139–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/1818-4049-2021-94-1-139-147.
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On the basis of qualitative sociological surveys, the article presents certain aspects of public opinion of students of the Khabarovsk territory about the activities of the police, real and potential forms of interaction between the police officers and youth, directions of harmonizing relations between these social groups. The study showed that assessments of young people in these aspects are not uniform. In the collective consciousness of young people, the police mostly evoke positive associations. This is due, first of all, to the experience of personal positive interaction of students with the police officers, including as victims, or the experience of friends, acquaintances, relatives of respondents. Presence of similar experience, but substantively negative predetermined the spread of skeptical assessments of the activities of this law enforcement body in the student environment. The media, the Internet, and rumors also have a significant impact on the negative opinion of the police. Despite the presence of an unfavorable perception of the police, many respondents acted in cooperation with the police not only as victims or offenders, but, above all, in the role of those who assisted the police in solving the tasks facing it. The overwhelming majority of respondents expressed their readiness to help the police if necessary. The respondents see the main directions for optimizing interaction between young people and the police and increasing confidence in the latter in transforming the police as a social institution, but not in the society as a whole or Russian youth in particular.
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Gunther, Albert C., and Cindy T. Christen. "Projection or Persuasive Press? Contrary Effects of Personal Opinion and Perceived News Coverage on Estimates of Public Opinion." Journal of Communication 52, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 177–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02538.x.
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Neo, Ric, and Chen Xiang. "State rhetoric, nationalism and public opinion in China." International Affairs 98, no. 4 (July 4, 2022): 1327–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac105.
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Abstract The Chinese government is fond of invoking the ‘hurt feelings of 1.4 billion Chinese citizens’ to protest foreign actions and policies. However, this rhetoric might be nothing more than propaganda and attempts to leverage nationalist sentiment. How much do citizens in China actually care about issues completely unrelated to their daily livelihoods? To answer this, the study employs a representative survey to investigate the extent to which rhetoric about ‘hurt feelings’ is consistent with public opinion on four contemporary socio-political disputes involving the NBA, Marriott International, Mercedes-Benz and the city of Prague. Across the scenarios, we found that the Chinese government did not exaggerate the displeasure of audiences—citizens are aware of the cases, were indeed upset by them and advocated for retaliatory measures that were surprisingly more forceful than those adopted in reality. These emotions were largely driven by nationalistic sentiment rather than personal experiences or encounters, suggesting the success of state propaganda in steering the public opinion toward outcomes favourable to the state. These findings support recent studies highlighting the peculiar case of rising nationalism in China, and have important implications for the impact of public opinion on Chinese policymaking.
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Lerman, Amy E., and Katherine T. McCabe. "Personal Experience and Public Opinion: A Theory and Test of Conditional Policy Feedback." Journal of Politics 79, no. 2 (April 2017): 624–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/689286.
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Liepinytė-Kytrienė, Diana. "Functions of the opinion leader and he or she performs." Lietuvių kalba, no. 9 (December 18, 2015): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/lk.2015.22629.
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The aim of the article is to describe the functions of the opinion leader and he or she performs. The news portal „Delfi.lt“ articles from the year 2013, in which the most popular (according to the data of the survey company TNS LT) opinion leaders express their views serve as a basis in the article. Theoretical presumptions that their personal opinions shape the public opinion, affect social decisions and actions, are applied. Although the opinion leaders achieve popularity firstly through social activeness; however, for the purpose of persuasiveness an important role is attributed to linguistic peculiarities. In many cases, they determine the aspects the readers are to notice and remember. A person working towards becoming an opinion leader must meet the requirements of media channels, observe the general oratory requirements (language regularity, purity, clarity, simplicity, consistency, vividness, appropriateness, and aesthetic appeal), and fulfil the main functions of his or her text: to explain, prove, and persuade.
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Lin, Zhiyi. "Light Cavalry and Main Battlefield: A Study of the New Mainstream Media Personal Studio System." BCP Education & Psychology 4 (May 31, 2022): 72–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/bcpep.v4i.775.
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The new pattern of international public opinion and the new development of in-depth media integration have put forward higher requirements for mainstream media to adhere to the correct political direction, value orientation, and public opinion guidance in internal and external communication, so it is imperative to build a new type of mainstream media. As China’s state news agency with global reach, Xinhua News Agency is exploring the development path of the mainstream media in the background of media integration and transformation. With the advantage of being small and fast, Xinhua has introduced the personal studio system to achieve remarkable results in both mainstream values transmissions internally and public opinion struggle externally. Taking Xinhua News Agency as an example, this paper analyzes the development characteristics and optimization path of the mainstream media personal studio system from the perspective of communication form, content, effect, and media management, to provide a reference for the transformation and development of mainstream media in the new era.
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Joslyn, Mark R., and Donald P. Haider–Markel. "Framing Effects on Personal Opinion and Perception of Public Opinion: The Cases of Physician–Assisted Suicide and Social Security." Social Science Quarterly 83, no. 3 (September 2002): 690–706. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1540-6237.00109.
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Roy, Subhradeep, and Nicole Abaid. "Interactional dynamics of same-sex marriage legislation in the United States." Royal Society Open Science 4, no. 6 (June 2017): 170130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170130.
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Understanding how people form opinions and make decisions is a complex phenomenon that depends on both personal practices and interactions. Recent availability of real-world data has enabled quantitative analysis of opinion formation, which illuminates phenomena that impact physical and social sciences. Public policies exemplify complex opinion formation spanning individual and population scales, and a timely example is the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States. Here, we seek to understand how this issue captures the relationship between state-laws and Senate representatives subject to geographical and ideological factors. Using distance-based correlations, we study how physical proximity and state-government ideology may be used to extract patterns in state-law adoption and senatorial support of same-sex marriage. Results demonstrate that proximal states have similar opinion dynamics in both state-laws and senators’ opinions, and states with similar state-government ideology have analogous senators’ opinions. Moreover, senators’ opinions drive state-laws with a time lag. Thus, change in opinion not only results from negotiations among individuals, but also reflects inherent spatial and political similarities and temporal delays. We build a social impact model of state-law adoption in light of these results, which predicts the evolution of state-laws legalizing same-sex marriage over the last three decades.
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Kim, So Young, and Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias. "Cross-National Public Opinion on Climate Change: The Effects of Affluence and Vulnerability." Global Environmental Politics 14, no. 1 (February 2014): 79–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00215.
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Climate change has emerged as one of the most important issues of the twentyfirst century. Recent opinion polls show rising public awareness of climate change. Yet considerable cross-national variation exists in the intensity of public concern and in public willingness to pay for addressing climate change. Drawing on twelve multinational surveys, we examine two aggregate conditions—a country's affluence and its vulnerability to climate risks—as key factors underlying cross-national differences in public support for and commitment to costly climate policies. In contrast to the post-materialism thesis, we find “strong” concern about climate change to be higher in developing countries. Contrary to expectation, climate vulnerability had little effect on public concern, but did have significant impact on some measures of personal commitment and support for climate policies. The analysis indicates that, in most countries examined, high concern about climate change is only beginning to translate into personal commitment to action.
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Meernik, James. "Violence and Reconciliation in Colombia: The Personal and the Contextual." Journal of Politics in Latin America 11, no. 3 (December 2019): 323–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1866802x19894471.
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In the aftermath of war and large-scale violence, how can nations function as societies? How can people learn to live together again? Or, have the foundations of trust, civility, and predictability upon which fully functioning societies depend been irrevocably damaged? If we want to understand why reconciliation does or does not take root, we must begin by understanding the perspectives and interests of individuals. In this article, I develop such a model of individual attitudes towards reconciliation. In particular, I analyse the determinants of individual beliefs about reconciliation, with a particular emphasis on the impact of violence in Colombia. I combine survey data from the Latin American Public Opinion Project survey on individual attitudes regarding reconciliation with data on political violence to measure the extent to which individuals live in environments characterised by violence and how this shapes their opinions about reconciliation.
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Jiang, Jing, and Juanjuan Ren. "Chinese Universities’ Image Repair after Network Public Opinion Events: Strategy Choice and Effect Evaluation." Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society 2022 (October 15, 2022): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7741311.
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The study aims to address Chinese universities’ image repair strategies after network public opinion events in the field of crisis management; therefore, it takes 43 network public opinion events in Chinese universities as the research object, encodes the official texts issued by universities according to the image restoration strategy, and sums up the image repair strategies commonly used by Chinese universities. Then, natural language processing is used to conduct the sentiment analysis of the online comments obtained. Accordingly, the sentiment index is constructed to evaluate the effect of Chinese universities’ image repair strategies. We find that Chinese universities commonly use the image repair strategy combination of bolstering, provocation, and corrective action; they have not used the apology strategy commonly used in western discourse systems. We also find that the complete information release process has a better image repair effect, particularly in teachers’ lapse and personal safety events. The sentiment index in teachers’ lapse events is the highest and is related to the universities’ corrective actions. The sentiment index in different public opinion hot events is quite different, which may be related to the nature of specific events. In personal safety events, netizens are more satisfied with image repair strategies.
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Uhnakova, Dominika, and Jana Levicka. "Public opinion in Slovakia about physical punishment of children." SHS Web of Conferences 68 (2019): 01004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20196801004.
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Not so long ago, when the issue of physical punishment of children was not discussed at all. Progress occurred in the second half of the 20th century when children began to be perceived as authentic and legally protected beings. Over the past two decades we have seen an international shift in perspectives concerning the physical punishment of children. In 1990, research showing an association between physical punishment and negative developmental outcomes was starting to accumulate, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child had just been adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations. The aim of our research was to find out how citizens of the Slovak Republic perceive physical punishments of children and how they apply them in the educational process. We have found out whether opinions on physical punishments are varied according to gender, education and religion of respondents. The research has been conducted using a quantitative research strategy. In order to collect the data a questionnaire was used. The survey sample consisted of 168 respondents. The data obtained was processed and analyzed using the SPSS program. Significant differences were confirmed from the point of view of education – respondents with lower education preferred physical punishment more than respondents with higher education. It is important for parents, to realize that the use of educational methods, such as explanation, persuasion, demand, or personal example is the base for achieving educational goals.
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Sefo, Mustafa. "Javno mnijenje i medijsko oblikovanje javnog mnijenja / Public Opinion and how Media Form it." Pregled: časopis za društvena pitanja / Periodical for social issues 62, no. 1 (July 6, 2021): 175–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.48052/19865244.2021.1.175.
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In the past, the media played a significant role in allowing public opinion to express itself and become a public phenomenon, especially through radio and television. Nowadays, these relations are more complicated. The media have become more powerful and their role has become more important, including the Internet, while public opinion has made its presence and impact more visible, especially when it comes to polls. Relations and interactions have therefore become more complicated, even if more numerous, but they still hold the key to modern political communication where the three most important elements are political actors, the media, and public opinion. A general approach to the media and the Internet’s endless possibilities has allowed public opinion to be formed faster and easier, but at the same time, these are the factors that shape different features of public opinion, which vary from the regular ones. At the same time, these factors generate the expansion of public opinion in different directions and offer different possibilities for manipulation, propaganda, news distortion, free Internet access, and the expression of personal and subjective attitudes. These factors also pose a threat to maintaining the integrity of journalistic work, media ethics, and the free flow of authentic and objective news. The aforementioned factors leave colossal consequences on public opinion – its formation, growth, and expression. Increased individual and societal exposure to media content is a factor worth mentioning as well. The media and the public are interdependent - they complete each other and cannot operate or exist without each other.
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Leenstra, F., G. Munnichs, V. Beekman, E. van den Heuvel-Vromans, L. Aramyan, and H. Woelders. "Killing day-old chicks? Public opinion regarding potential alternatives." Animal Welfare 20, no. 1 (February 2011): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0962728600002414.
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AbstractThroughout the world, male chicks from layer breeds are killed just after hatching, as they are not profitable as regards the production of meat. The Dutch and European parliaments have insisted on research into possible alternatives to the killing of day-old chicks. In the present study we have investigated Dutch public opinion on the acceptability of these alternatives by means of discussions in so-called focus groups and via a public survey through computer-aided personal interviews (CAPI). To inform the participants about the subject, a film was made to explain the current practice and introduce a number of technological alternatives that would prevent development of male embryos, as well as the possibility of creating a ‘dual-purpose chicken’ that would allow male chicks to be used for meat production. The topics addressed in the study included the willingness of participants to pay a premium for eggs and chicken meat, were it necessary to prevent killing of male chicks. Focus-group discussions showed that many participants were unaware of the current practice of killing male chicks, and were shocked by this practice. However, once informed, the participants seemed able to take various considerations into account and rank the alternatives. The alternatives ‘looking into the fresh egg (to determine sex of the egg and not incubate male eggs)’, and ‘dual-purpose chickens’ scored best out of all the possible alternatives, and higher than maintaining the current practice. ‘Influencing the laying hens such that they produce fewer male eggs’ scored the same as maintaining the current practice. The use of ‘genetic modification to facilitate looking into the fresh egg’ scored only slightly lower than maintaining the current practice. Alternatives whereby developing male embryos die, or are killed, scored lower than maintaining the current practice.
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Panjaitan, Fathur Rahman, and Muhammad Said Harahap. "Community opinion on the personal brand of Bobby Nasution to Prospective Medan Mayor in 2020." COMMICAST 2, no. 1 (February 2, 2021): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/commicast.v2i1.3152.
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The current phenomenon in the world of politics is flooded with families of politicians who run for politics. Where the next cabinet will be dominated by young people. On the other hand, a young politician, although included in the scope of a political dynasty, shows that young people are not politically apathetic. And to continue to exist in the world of politics, personal branding is needed where every candidate for politicians must build a name or reputation which means creating a "brand" or public perception of them. Bobby Nasution as one of the candidates for the mayor of Medan 2020 tries to create positive personal branding among the people of Medan. This study aims to determine how the public opinion on the personal brand of the 2020 Medan Mayor Candidates. This type of research uses quantitative descriptive research. The population in this study were the people of Tanjung Selamat Subdistrict, Medan Tuntung District, with 100 people as the sample in the study. Data collection techniques in this study were observations and questionnaires (questionnaires). Data analysis in this research is a single table analysis. This research was conducted in the environment III Tanjung Selamat, Medan Tuntung District. When this research was conducted in July 2020. The results of the study, namely personal branding, aim to obtain perceptions that give rise to a positive reputation for the individual. But in fact, the personal brand Bobby Nasution tends to be less than optimal in the Tanjung Selamat Community. This research concludes that Bobby Nasution's brand as a candidate for Mayor of Medan in 2020 raises public opinion and raises the pros and cons of society.
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Clark, April K., and Juliet E. Carlisle. "Pushing a Green Agenda: Explaining Shifting Public Support for Environmental Spending." Political Research Quarterly 73, no. 2 (January 4, 2019): 243–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1065912918817193.
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Although mass opinion on many political issues is generally stable, Americans’ beliefs about environmentalism have undergone dramatic changes in recent decades. Many studies of attitudinal change identify cohort- or period-based effects as contributing to large-scale opinion changes. However, limited research exists that considers both explanations simultaneously. This study estimates variability in environmental spending support across cohort and periods while also testing the role of compositional and contextual causes of this variability. Our findings contribute to understanding mass opinion change, as well as variations in the American public’s concern about the environment. Furthermore, the modeling approach addresses the question of which macro- and micro-level characteristics are influential for pushing forward a green agenda. The evidence presented casts doubt on studies that see pro-environmentalism as dependent on personal or national wealth as well as findings that view shifts in concern as stemming from generational replacement. Yet, among the major explanations identified in public opinion research, we find support for elite cues and, to a lesser degree, subjective economic security as important factors that drive shifts in public concern about the environment. Given these results, we argue that theories of postmaterialist environmentalism and theories of global environmentalism are incomplete on their own.
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Yuksel, Mujde, and Lauren I. Labrecque. "“Digital buddies”: parasocial interactions in social media." Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing 10, no. 4 (October 10, 2016): 305–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jrim-03-2016-0023.
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Purpose This paper aims to focus its inquiries on the parasocial interactions (PSI) and relationships (PSR) consumers form with personae in online social media communities. The authors extend the marketing literature on parasocial interaction/relationship beyond brands by focusing on personal social media accounts (public student-athletes). Design/methodology/approach The authors adopt a grounded theory methodology (Glaser and Strauss, 2009) triangulating observational netnographic data (Kozinets, 2010) of 49 public student-athlete accounts on Twitter (34,500 tweets) with in-depth interviews. The findings emphasize that PSI/PSR occur not only from interactions with brands but also through personal accounts on social media platforms. Findings The investigation reveals that through such social media platforms, PSI/PSR influence consumers cognitively, affectively and behaviorally. In terms of cognition, the data suggest that PSI/PSR can influence opinion, interests, attention allocation and construction of relations, specifically through the availability of in-depth knowledge about the social media persona. Additionally, the research findings indicate that affect-laden messages from persona can alter emotion and mood, induce empathetic reactions and trigger inspiration, especially in relation to the shared interest of the online community of the social media account. Behaviorally, the findings suggest that personas’ messages can direct and inspire both online and offline actions through endorsed behavioral parasocial interactions. Research limitations/implications This research focused on one specific social media platform, Twitter. Twitter was specifically chosen, because it is a popular social media platform and allows non-reciprocal relationships. Although the authors feel that the findings would hold for other social media platforms, future research may be conducted to see if there are differences in PSI/PSR development on different types of networks. Additionally, the authors focused on a specific type of personal account, student-athletes. Future research may wish to extend beyond this population to other personal social media accounts, such as fashion bloggers, diy bloggers and others. Originality/value This research reveals that PSI/PSR can occur not only from interactions with brands but also through personal accounts on social media platforms. The findings give support for the value of brand spokespersons and brand ambassadors and suggest that brands should take careful consideration into who is chosen to represent the brand.
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Kawamoto, Tatsuro, Takaaki Aoki, and Michiko Ueda. "Graph-based open-ended survey on concerns related to COVID-19." PLOS ONE 16, no. 8 (August 13, 2021): e0256212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256212.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented public health crisis with broad social and economic consequences. We conducted four surveys between April and August 2020 using the graph-based open-ended survey (GOS) framework, and investigated the most pressing concerns and issues for the general public in Japan. The GOS framework is a hybrid of the two traditional survey frameworks that allows respondents to post their opinions in a free-format style, which can subsequently serve as one of the choice items for other respondents, just as in a multiple-choice survey. As a result, this framework generates an opinion graph that relates opinions and respondents. We can also construct annotated opinion graphs to achieve a higher resolution. By clustering the annotated opinion graphs, we revealed the characteristic evolution of the response patterns as well as the interconnectedness and multi-faceted nature of opinions. Substantively, our notable finding is that “social pressure,” not “infection risk,” was one of the major concerns of our respondents. Social pressure refers to criticism and discrimination that they anticipate receiving from others should they contract COVID-19. It is possible that the collectivist nature of Japanese culture coupled with the government’s policy of relying on personal responsibility to combat COVID-19 explains some of the above findings, as the latter has led to the emergence of vigilantes. The presence of mutual surveillance can contribute to growing skepticism toward others as well as fear of ostracism, which may have negative consequences at both the societal and individual levels.
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Defty, Andrew. "Can You Tell What It Is Yet? Public Attitudes Towards ‘the Big Society’." Social Policy and Society 13, no. 1 (May 30, 2013): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746413000213.
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‘The big society’ was a central theme in the Conservative's 2010 general election campaign. Opinion polls at the time of the election suggested that ‘the big society’ had little resonance with the public. Nevertheless, ‘the big society’ has been the subject of a number of prominent re-launches since the election. It appeared to underpin the Coalition government's policies in a range of areas and the Prime Minister invested considerable personal capital in it. This article examines public attitudes towards ‘the big society’. Drawing on public opinion data, it focuses on public recognition and understanding of ‘the big society’ and more broadly on whether the government's approach to rolling back state provision has prompted an increased public appetite for involvement in the delivery of services.
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SHEEHAN, COLLEEN A. "Madison v. Hamilton: The Battle Over Republicanism and the Role of Public Opinion." American Political Science Review 98, no. 3 (August 2004): 405–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055404001248.
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This article examines the causes of the dispute between James Madison and Alexander Hamilton in the early 1790s. Though Hamilton initially believed that Madison's opposition to the Federalist administration was probably motivated by personal animosity and political advantage, in later years he concluded what Madison had long argued: the controversy between Republicans and Federalists stemmed from a difference of principle. For Madison, republicanism meant the recognition of the sovereignty of public opinion and the commitment to participatory politics. Hamilton advocated a more submissive role for the citizenry and a more independent status for the political elite. While Madison did not deny to political leaders and enlightened men a critical place in the formation of public opinion, he fought against Hamilton's thin version of public opinion as “confidence” in government. In 1791–92 Madison took the Republican lead in providing a philosophic defense for a tangible, active, and responsible role for the citizens of republican government.
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Hu, Cuicui. "Protection of Personal Information in the Era of Big Data." Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences 2, no. 9 (September 21, 2022): 184–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/fhss.v2i9.2128.
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In recent years, cloud computing and big data technologies have been widely used in China in the fields of public security, medical and health care, intelligent transportation, telecommunications and education, etc. The quality of life of the people has been improved and the digital industry has gained tremendous development, but at the same time, a series of personal information infringement disputes have arisen and the protection of personal information has attracted much attention. At present, insufficient protection of personal information under public law, the shortcomings of traditional informed consent rules, imperfect regulatory mechanism for personal information, and weak awareness of personal information protection have become major obstacles to balance the protection and utilization of personal information. Accordingly, it is necessary to adhere to the personal information protection path that combines public law protection and private law protection, to apply informed consent in the handling of personal information, and to improve the comprehensive supervision mechanism that unifies administrative supervision, industry association supervision, corporate internal supervision, and public opinion supervision, and on this basis, to improve the personal information infringement remedy mechanism that combines judicial remedy and private remedy.
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Titi, Catharine. "Investment Arbitration and the Controverted Right of the Arbitrator to Issue a Separate or Dissenting Opinion." Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 17, no. 1 (June 27, 2018): 197–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718034-12341376.
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Abstract Although dissents are not generally encouraged in international arbitration, they are a reality of investment treaty disputes. About one in five cases includes at least one separate or dissenting opinion. The ICSID Convention is rare among investment arbitration rules to expressly recognise the right of the arbitrator to attach his or her personal opinion to the award. Other investment arbitration rules are silent on the topic. And yet dissenting opinions are an established feature of several international courts and tribunals and their role is often viewed more benevolently than in investment arbitration. The article explores the perceived advantages and disadvantages of dissents as identified in different legal settings, including in public international courts and municipal legal systems, and critically applies them to investment arbitration. Normatively, it expects that dissents function in a broadly similar manner in investment arbitration and in other public international courts and tribunals. But it also recognises that this is nuanced by particularities of context and notably the terms of appointment of the adjudicator.
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Connaughton, Brian F. "A Most Delicate Balance: Representative Government, Public Opinion, and Priests in Mexico, 1821––1834." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 17, no. 1 (2001): 41–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/msem.2001.17.1.41.
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This article studies the fragmentation of public opinion in Mexico in the years following Independence in the midst of a critical lack of legitimacy on the part of succesive governments. Those in power, appealing to public opinion as the supposed pillar of independent representative government, tried to gain control over the situation by means of coaction and persuasion. As they did so, they had to concern themselves with the sensitivities and political convictions of priests, whose actions might tip a fragile political equilibrium one way or the other by granting personal sanction and hypothetically religious validation to contingent political movements. Este artíículo aborda la problemáática de la fragmentacióón de la opinióón púública en Mééxico en los añños posteriores a la independencia, en medio de una críítica falta de legitimidad por parte de los gobiernos en turno. ÉÉstos, apelando a la opinióón púública que era el supuesto pilar de un gobierno representativo independiente,trataron de tomarcontrolde lasituacióón por diversos medios de coaccióón y de persuasióón.Alhacerlo,tuvieron que preocuparse por las sensibilidades y convicciones polííticas de los sacerdotes,cuyas acciones podííaninclinar la fráágil balanza políítica en un sentido u otro al otorgar su sancióón personal y una convalidacióón pretendidamente religiosa a un movimiento coyuntural.
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Fang, Songying, Xiaojun Li, and Adam Y. Liu. "Chinese Public Opinion about US–China Relations from Trump to Biden." Chinese Journal of International Politics 15, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 27–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poac001.
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Abstract Numerous public opinion surveys have found that Americans’ views of China have become extremely negative in recent years. Much less is understood about the trends in Chinese views of the USA and the countries’ bilateral relations. As leaders in both countries have come under public pressure about their policy stances toward the other side, it is critical to fill the gap. This study develops a theoretical argument about how a concern for political legitimacy may allow public opinion to influence foreign policy making in authoritarian countries, and it presents findings from a two-wave public opinion survey in China conducted before and after the 2020 US presidential election. The results show that Chinese evaluations of the bilateral relationship and of the USA slumped during the Trump era but rebounded somewhat after Biden took office. In addition, the majority of Chinese respondents believed their country to be the world’s largest and leading economy and favored China being the world’s leading power, either by itself or alongside the USA. Furthermore, younger and more educated respondents held more negative views, although these were mitigated by personal connections with and experiences in the USA. These findings have important policy implications.