Public Opinion

Public Opinion and the United Nations

Further Reading

• A concise encyclopedia of the United Nations (including Public Opinion, H Volger, KA Annan -2010)
• The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations (TG Weiss – 2007)
• International Law: A Dictionary (including Public Opinion, Boczek, Boleslaw Adam -2005)

Concept of Public Opinion

Note: explore also the meaning of this legal term in the American Ecyclopedia of Law.

Resources

See Also

• Ideology
• Public Attention
• Political Movement
• Social Movement
• Grassroots
• Socialism
• Media

Further Reading

• • Ansolabehere, S., Rodden, J., & Snyder, J. M. (2008). The strength of issues: Using multiple measures to gauge preference stability, ideological constraint, and issue voting. American Political Science Review, 102, 215–232.
  • Asmus, R., Everts, P., & Isernia, P. (2004). Across the Atlantic and the political aisle: The double divide in U.S.-European relations Washington, D.C.: German Marshall Fund of the United States.
  • Bartels, L. M. (1994). The American Public’s Defense Spending Preferences in the Post-Cold War Era. The Public Opinion Quarterly, 58(4), 479–508.
  • Berinsky, A. J. (2009). In time of war: Understanding American public opinion from World War II to Iraq. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Bobrow, D. B., & Boyer, M. A. (2001). Public opinion and international policy choices: Global Commitments for Japan and its peers? Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2(1), 67–95.
  • Brechin, S. R. (2003). Comparative public opinion and knowledge on global climatic change and the Kyoto Protocol: The US versus the world? International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 23, 106–134.
  • Conover, P.J., & Sapiro, V. (1993). Gender, feminist consciousness, and war. American Journal of Political Science, 37(November), 1079–1099.
  • Eichenberg, R. C. (1989). Public opinion and national security in Western Europe: Consensus lost? Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Eichenberg, R. C. (2003). Gender differences in public attitudes toward the use of force by the United States, 1990–2003. International Security, 28(Summer), 134–135.
  • Eichenberg, R. C. (2005). Victory has many friends: US public opinion and the use of military force, 1981–2005. International Security, 30(Summer), 140–177.
  • Eichenberg, R. C. (2006). Global public opinion from the First Gulf War to the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Paper delivered to the Convention of the International Studies Association, San Diego, March 22–25.
  • Eichenberg, R. C., & Dalton, R. (2007). Post-Maastricht blues: The welfare state and the transformation of public opinion on European integration, 1973–2002. Acta Politica, 42(July), 128–152.
  • Eichenberg, R. C., & Read, B. M. (in press). Gender difference in attitudes towards global issues. In J. Stearns & D. Tape (Eds.), Handbook of gender in world politics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishers, forthcoming.
  • Eichenberg, R. C., & Stoll, R. (2003). Representing defense: Democratic control of the defense budget in the United States and Western Europe. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 47(August), 399–422.
  • Eichenberg, R. C., & Stoll, R. (2015). The acceptability of war and support for defense spending: Evidence from fourteen democracies, 2004‐2013. Journal of Conflict Resolution.
  • Everts, P., & Isernia, P. (Eds.). (2001). Public opinion and the international use of force. London: Routledge.
  • Everts, P., & Isernia, P. (2005). The polls: The war in Iraq. Public Opinion Quarterly, 69, 264–323.
  • Everts, P., & Isernia, P. (2015). Public opinion, transatlantic relations and the use of force. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Feaver, P., & Gelpi, C. (2004). Choosing your battles: American civil-military relations and the use of force. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Gabel, M. (1998). Interests and integration. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Gelpi, C., Feaver, P., and Reifler, J. (2005/2006). Success matters: Casualty sensitivity and the war in Iraq. International Security, 30(Winter), 7–46.
  • Goldsmith, B., Horiuchi, Y., & Inoguchi, T. (2005). American foreign policy and global public opinion. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 49, 408–429.
  • Goldsmith, B. E., Horiuchi, Y., & Wood, T. (2014). Doing well by doing good: The impact of foreign aid on foreign public opinion. Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 9, 87–114.
  • Hainmueller, J., & Hiscox, M. J. (2006). Learning to love globalization: Education and individual attitudes toward international trade. International Organization, 60, 469–498.
  • Hartley, T., & Russett, B. (1992). Public opinion and the common defense: Who governs military spending in the United States? American Political Science Review, 86, 905–915.
  • Holsti, O. (2004). Public opinion and American foreign policy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Howard, M. (1983). Reassurance and deterrence. Foreign Affairs, 61, 309–320.
  • Huddy, L., Feldman, S., & Casese, E. (2009). “Terrorism, Anxiety, and War.” In W. G. K. Stritzke (Ed.), Terrorism and torture: An interdisciplinary perspective, 290–312. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Inglehart, R., & Norris, P. (2003). Rising tide: Gender equality and cultural change around the world. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Isernia, P., Juhász, Z., & Rattinger, H. (2002). Foreign policy and the rational public in comparative perspective. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 46, 201–224.
  • Jenkins-Smith, H., Mitchell, N., & Herron, K. (2004). Foreign and domestic policy belief structures in the U.S. and British publics. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 48, 287–309.
  • Jentleson, B., & Britton, R. (1998). Still pretty prudent: Post-Cold War American public opinion on the use of military force. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 42(August), 395–417.
  • Larson, E. (1996). Casualties and consensus: The historical role of casualties in domestic support for U.S. military operations. Santa Monica, CA: RAND.
  • Larson, E., & Savych, B. (2005). American public support for U.S. military operations from Mogadishu to Baghdad. Santa Monica, CA: RAND.
  • Mansfield, E. D., Mutz, D. C., & Silver, L. R. (2015). Men, women, trade, and free markets. International Studies Quarterly, 59, 303–315.
  • Mayda, A. M. (2006). Who is against immigration? A cross-country investigation of individual attitudes toward immigrants. Review of Economics and Statistics, 88, 510–30.
  • Mueller, J. (1973). War, presidents and public opinion. New York: John Wiley.
  • Mueller, J. (1994). Policy and opinion in the Gulf War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Nincic, M. (1988). The United States, the Soviet Union, and the politics of opposites. World Politics, 40, 452–475.
  • Reifler, J., Clarke, H. D., Scotto, T. J., Sanders, D., Stewart, M. C., & Whiteley, P. (2014). Prudence, Principle and Minimal Heuristics: British Public Opinion Toward the Use of Military Force in Afghanistan and Libya. The British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 16(1), 28–55.
  • Scheve, K. F., & Slaughter, M. J. (2001). What determines individual trade-policy preferences? Journal of International Economics, 54, 267–292.
  • Shapiro, R., & Page, B. I. (1988). Foreign policy and the rational public. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 32, 211–247.
  • Sobel, R., & Shiraev, E. (Eds.). (2003). International public opinion and the Bosnia Crisis. New York: Lexington Books.
  • Soroka, S., & Wlezien, C. (2009). Degrees of democracy: Politics, public opinion, and policy. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
  • Stimson, J. (1999). Public opinion in America: Mood, cycles, and swings. Boulder, CO: Westview.
  • Tomz, M. (2007). Domestic audience costs in international relations: An experimental approach. International Organization, 61, 821–840.
  • Welzel, C., Inglehart, R., & Puranen, B. (2015). Declining willingness to fight for one’s country: The individual-level basis of the long peace. Journal of Peace Research, 51, 1–17.
  • Wittkopf, E. (1990). The faces of internationalism: Public opinion and American foreign policy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Wlezien, C. (1996). Dynamics of representation: The case of US spending on defense. British Journal of Political Science, 26, 81–103.
  • Zaller, J. (1992). The nature and origins of mass opinion. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
  • Zaller, J., & Stanley Feldman, S. (1992). A simple theory of the survey response: Answering questions versus revealing preferences. American Journal of Political Science, 36(August): 579–616.
  • Ziegler, A. (1987). The structure of European attitudes toward Atlantic cooperation. British Journal of Political Science, 17(July), 457–477.

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Public opinion

Concept of Public opinion

See the dictionary definition of Public opinion.

Characteristics of Public opinion

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Resources

Translation of Public opinion

• Spanish: Opinión pública
• French: Opinion publique
• German: öffentliche Meinung
• Italian: Opinione pubblica
• Portuguese: Opinião pública
• Polish: Opinia publiczna

Thesaurus of Public opinion

Politics > Politics and public safety > Public opinion
Education And Communications > Communications > Communications policy > Public consultation > Public opinion
Education And Communications > Communications > Communications policy > Public relations > Public opinion
Politics > Political framework > Political ideology > Populism > Public opinion

See also

• Public consultation
• Public relations
• Populism

• Public awareness campaign
• Trends of opinion
• European Movement
• Promotion of the European idea
• European symbol
• Image
• Right of personal portrayal