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Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2004

William L. Rosenberg
William L. Rosenberg
Affiliation:
Drexel University
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Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People. By Scott L. Althaus. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 384p. $75.00 cloth, $28.00 paper.

The central theme of this book deals with the relationship between knowledge, representation, and political equality as expressed in opinion surveys. Scott Althaus finds that political knowledge does matter. In addition, the way that knowledge is distributed in society has an important impact on how one should interpret the collective preferences of the public, particularly when assessing the role of the less knowledgeable.

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BOOK REVIEWS: AMERICAN POLITICS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , September 2004 , pp. 585 - 586
Copyright
© 2004 American Political Science Association

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