Invisible Sovereign : Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction.
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- 9781421418711
- 303.3/80973
- E302.1 -- .S36 2016eb
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Public Opinion and the American Political Imagination -- CHAPTER 1: The Moral Economy of Opinion -- CHAPTER 2: Credit and the Political Economy of Opinion -- CHAPTER 3: Partisan Manufactories of Public Sentiment -- CHAPTER 4: The Importance of Having Opinions -- CHAPTER 5: The Fatal Force of Public Opinion -- CHAPTER 6 Irrepressible Conflicts, Impending Crises -- CONCLUSION: Corn-Pone Opinions -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Ranging across a wide variety of historical fields, Invisible Sovereign traces a shift over time from early "political-constitutional" concepts, which identified public opinion with a sovereign people and wrapped it in the language of constitutionalism, to more modern, "social-psychological" concepts, which defined public opinion as a product of social action and mass communication.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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