Public Support for Policies: Public Opinion and Policy Making

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://cvvm.soc.cas.cz/cz/casopis-nase-spolecnost/prehled-clanku/149-2018-2/4865-public-support-for-policies-public-opinion-and-policy-making" target="_blank" >https://cvvm.soc.cas.cz/cz/casopis-nase-spolecnost/prehled-clanku/149-2018-2/4865-public-support-for-policies-public-opinion-and-policy-making</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Public Support for Policies: Public Opinion and Policy Making

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Increasing policy feasibility is a frequent argument for policy relevance of research on public attitudes to policies. Therefore, this text discusses the interlinkage of public opinion and the policy-making process. The text focuses on the role of public opinion surveys as a source of information about public attitudes towards policies and policy instruments. Following a discussion of conditions of policy responsiveness related to poll measures of public support, public support is argued to emerge from public opinion as a communication process or a process of social organization, rather than to reflect a collective state of mind. As such, public support constitutes one of many possible results of the public opinion communication process - a result which is temporary and thenceforth subject to the ongoing process. It is not reducible to survey responses as expressions of individual attitudes toward policies, which present an oversimplified and partial picture of reality. Surveys, however, constitute an important source of information for researchers and policy makers. Therefore, we need to use and interpret them accordingly. Some recommendations are proposed to improve the current practice.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Public Support for Policies: Public Opinion and Policy Making

Popis výsledku anglicky

Increasing policy feasibility is a frequent argument for policy relevance of research on public attitudes to policies. Therefore, this text discusses the interlinkage of public opinion and the policy-making process. The text focuses on the role of public opinion surveys as a source of information about public attitudes towards policies and policy instruments. Following a discussion of conditions of policy responsiveness related to poll measures of public support, public support is argued to emerge from public opinion as a communication process or a process of social organization, rather than to reflect a collective state of mind. As such, public support constitutes one of many possible results of the public opinion communication process - a result which is temporary and thenceforth subject to the ongoing process. It is not reducible to survey responses as expressions of individual attitudes toward policies, which present an oversimplified and partial picture of reality. Surveys, however, constitute an important source of information for researchers and policy makers. Therefore, we need to use and interpret them accordingly. Some recommendations are proposed to improve the current practice.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Naše společnost

ISSN

1214-438X

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

16

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

9-27

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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