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Public opinion

the finding that aggregate policy preferences are stable, coherent and respond sensibly to new information even though many individual opinions are poorly informed.

In public opinion, rational public refers to the finding that aggregate policy preferences are stable, coherent and respond sensibly to new information even though many individual opinions are poorly informed. This meaning comes from Page (1992) in The Rational Public.[1]

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aggregate3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs information4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs policy2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Page, B. I., & Shapiro, R. Y. (1992). The Rational Public. University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226644806.001.0001

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