Concept Of Public Opinion Research Articles

POLLSTER APPROACH VERSUS SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO CONDUCTING ELECTORAL RESEARCH

The purpose of the study is to consider the advantages and disadvantages of pollster and sociological approaches to electoral research.The article shows that conducting electoral research in modern election campaigns is carried out equally by pollster (for purely political purposes) and sociological (for scientific and sociological purposes) technologies. It has been proven that optimal results can be achieved by combining pollster and sociological approaches to electoral research. It was determined that today the organization of an effective election campaign requires equally sociologists-pollsters and sociologists-analysts, the result of whose work is respectively collected empirical data and an analytical product, scientific expertise.It has been demonstrated that pollster and sociological approaches to conducting electoral research differ not only in the concepts of public opinion and the styles of its research, but also in the subject field. The electorate as a subject of electoral research acquires different content for different approaches. The pollster approach is more likely to understand the electorate as a circle of voters who vote for one or another party or candidate for an elected position and, in fact, are supporters of a certain political force or personality, while representatives of the sociological approach mostly consider the electorate as a collection of all citizens who vested with the right to vote and who exercise or do not exercise it under specially created conditions. It is argued that the integration of the subject fields of electoral polling and electoral sociological research will allow more effective and productive use of analytical potential in the election campaign, since such an organization of patronage work will help not only to record the results of electoral research, but also to predict the trends of electoral choice, the flow of votes, the reactions of electoral groups to specific political events. The availability of systematic ideas about the types of voters and their personal profiles will help to meaningfully approach the understanding of the electorate.

OPINI PUBLIK MENGENAI ISU “SRI MULYANI MAU ORANG KAYA BAYAR PAJAK LEBIH BANYAK” DALAM MEDIA INSTAGRAM @narasinewsroom

The issue that has been developing in recent times is the issue of the policy of the minister of finance who wants to issue a policy that the rich must pay higher than before, this policy is taken in a step to deal with Indonesia's economic recovery which was previously sluggish due to Covid-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study is to analyze Positive public opinion, negative public opinion, and neutral on the post 'Sri Mulyani Mau Orang Kaya Bayar Pajak Lebih Banyak' in Instagram Media @narasinewsroom Period July 2, 2021 In this study, researchers used the concept of public opinion which has been categorized into opinion positive, negative, and neutral.In this study, the study population took all comments on the post "Sri Mulyani Wants Rich People to Pay More Taxes" on @narasinewsroom Instagram account as many as 526 and the sample in this study was 228 comments. The data collection technique uses random sampling techniques. in testing validity and reliability using reliability between coders using hostly formulas. The results showed that there were 82 positive opinions (36% of comments), negative opinions categories got 86 frequency results (38% of comments) and neutral opinions that got frequency results of 60 (26% comments).
 Keywords: public relations, new media, public opinion

INFLUENCE OF PUBLIC OPINION ON THE MANAGEMENT OF VACCINE ISSUES

The issue of vaccines circulating in the community is identical to the vaccination process, or the vaccine itself. Such as the issue of the corona-vac vaccine that is not effective against the virus, to the Moderna vaccine which is said to have harmful vaccine effects if injected. This makes the role of the government, legislators, and the community synergize to be able to set the record straight on the issue of vaccines. One of them is The government of DKI Jakarta tries to restore what issues spread to the public. The approach used in this study is quantitative, as the research is presented with figures statistically to convey circumstances that correspond to the facts in the field about public opinion and vaccine issues. Based on the results obtained in this study, it can be concluded that public opinion influences the management of issues with a positive relationship direction. Based on the results obtained in this study, it can be concluded that public opinion influences the management of issues with a positive relationship direction and strong strength. Because basically this concept of public opinion serves as a public step to find out what the conditions are like with the issues circulating today.

Dış Politikada Kamuoyu Oluşumu: Türkiye-Hollanda Diplomatik Gerginliğinin Hürriyet, Sabah ve Sözcü Gazetelerindeki Sunumunun İncelenmesi

The period in which academic interests intensify on the concept of public opinion on a controversial issue is observed to be in parallel with the period in which migration from villages to cities accelerate and mass societies begin to emerge. During the same period, the concept also gained importance in political life. At the moment, all powers have to take into account the element of public opinion when making decisions both in domestic policy and in foreign policy. Public opinion has an importance on domestic policy as well as on foreign policy in terms of influencing decisions. Mass media play an important role in establishing, informing, and spreading the public opinion.The purpose of this study is to analyze the diplomatic tension between the Netherlands and Turkey, which arose beginning on the first days of March 2017 and became a full-blown crisis on March 10th and 11th, through discourse analysis of newspapers’ headlines on the axis of mass media, public opinion, and foreign policy. For this purpose, the discourse analysis model of Teun A. Van Dijk was used and the front pages of Hürriyet, Sabah, and Sözcü newspapers were analyzed starting from March 12th, 2017 on which the incident appeared on press to April 17th, 2017, on which first unofficial results of Constitutional Amendment Referendum of April 16th were announced to the public. The findings of this study suggest that newspapers display an ideological bias rather than informing the public about foreign policy.

Public Opinion and Justice

The article considers the question of whether the legislator should always take into account public opinion. The problems of defining the concept of public opinion are considered: a distinction is made between what people think, say and do. In the context of the Roussoist distinction between the “common will” and the “will of all”, one's own position regarding public opinion is formulated. Further, it is proved that both public opinion and the current legislation are not always fair, while justice as a social ideal takes precedence over both. Hence, it is concluded that legislation, being a form of striving for justice, should not always take into account public opinion. At the same time, the practical significance of taking into account public opinion in the context of the realization of the ideal of justice, identifying the actual needs of members of society, as well as the moral justification of values and determining the persons authorized for such justification is justified. A distinction is made between public opinion and moral position of society. It is argued that the legislator should take into account both public opinion and the moral position of society, but for different reasons and for different purposes.

In data we (don't) trust: The public adrift in data-driven public opinion models

This article seeks to address current debates comparing polls and opinion mining as empirically based figuration models of public opinion in the light of in-depth intellectual debates on the role and nature of public opinion that began after the French Revolution and the controversy over public opinion spurred by the invention of polls. Issues of historical quantification and re-conceptualisation of public opinion are addressed in four parts. The first summarises the history of the rise and fall of the concept of public opinion. The second re-examines the key controversies in the debates on the theoretical, empirical and social implications and consequences of the invention of polling. The third part scrutinises the datafication of public opinion that started with polling industry and continues in the age of big data and data mining. The final section discusses the controversial potentials of opinion-mining technology and suggests ways in which social scientists could critically respond to the big data and opinion-mining challenges in order to reintegrate the ideas of publicness, the public and public sphere into public opinion research.

“Parliament of Man, Federation of the World”: Repertoires of Statecraft, the Hague Conferences, and the Making of the Liberal Order

ABSTRACT Contemporary power politics often takes place in liberal fora, yet scholars have not paid sustained attention to the origins and characteristics of this mode of statecraft. To trace the development of these repertoires, the negotiation practices of the 1899 and 1907 Hague conferences represent a critical transition from realist practices of the Concert system to twentieth-century liberal internationalism. At The Hague, states experimented with using parliamentary procedure: they introduced motions, held votes, signed and ratified agreements. The Hague conferences were also an occasion where states grappled with questions of institutional design. More broadly, the conferences were a moment when states appealed to concepts of public opinion, international society, and “civilisation” to legitimise change. The methods that diplomats developed for managing tensions within and amongst these repertoires remain a familiar feature of liberal statecraft until the present day.

HUKUM CAMBUK & OPINI PUBLIK: ANALISIS TEMATIK TANGGAPAN NETIZEN TERHADAP BERITA PELANGGARAN SYARIAT ISLAM DI AKUN FACEBOOK MEDIA MASSA

This qualitative descriptive research studied the public narratives regarding the caning execution news on Serambinews.com's Facebook fan page. Apart from that, this research also investigated the relationship between Facebook users' discussion against public policy (Sharia law) and the existence of Serambinews.com as the news media. This research used the five most commented news links from January 2018 to December 2020 as the data. This data was analyzed using Thematic Analysis and studied using the concept of Public Opinion. The results showed that the public often discussed four dominant themes, including two topics that exhibited negative nuances, such as proposing extreme punishment and defamation against the convicts. These themes were a reflection of the growing public opinion regarding the caning in Aceh. Negative public opinion had the potential to form a consensus and affected public policy regarding Sharia law. But on the other hand, despite the domination of negative public opinion, the researcher argued that Serambinews.com gained economic benefits from this practice.

Fake news, pós-verdade e os limites (ou desafios) da opinião pública na sociedade da plataforma

O artigo traz uma reflexão sobre a produção da opinião pública na sociedade de plataformas, apontando como os fenômenos das fake news e da pós-verdade incidem sobre esse processo. Para tanto, traça um panorama da lógica comunicativa vigente e aciona o conceito de opinião pública para pensar as especificidades e as nuances do debate público em plataformas on-line.

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PALESTINIAN AND JEWISH PUBLIC OPINIONS: THE CASE OF 2008 GAZA WAR

Industrial revolution has influenced not only the structure of economic life but also that of socio-political life. The consequences regarding socio-political structure were the creation of mass society and then mass communication. These two breakthroughs are followed by the emergence of the concept of public opinion since the masses has become a political force by themselves; hence the people were important components for the politicians to win the elections or to reproduce a new political reality with the support of public opinion. In line with this background, this article examines as the case study the Palestinian - Israeli conflict. The aim of the study is to demonstrate that two camps of the conflict attempt to represent the actions of other in a negative manner, in a disadvantaged position in the media and thus help to create a public opinion unfavorable vis-à-vis each other. To verify this hypothesis, the process after the Gaza War which took place on 27 December 2008 would be analyzed through the comparison of the news appeared on the chosen Palestinian and the Jewish media networks in that period.

OPINI PUBLIK TERHADAP PENERAPAN NEW NORMAL DI MEDIA SOSIAL TWITTER

Social media is popular with all ages, people in young and old age groups can access social media. Social media is a place for information and opinion exchange. Twitter is one of the social media that is actively used in Indonesia. The new normal phenomenon that is currently being applied is wanted to be further known by researchers by referring to the hashtag #newnormalindonesia on Twitter. Researchers want to find out how public opinion is formed based on the hashtag #newnormalindonesia on Twitter. This research uses the concept of public opinion which is categorized into positive, negative, and neutral. In the research method, researchers use quantitative content analysis, the analysis unit uses thematic analysis units with the operationalization of concepts using the concept of public opinion. Coding sheets are used as instruments in data collection techniques, then in testing the validity and reliability using inter-coder reliability. The results showed that the twitter posts with the #newnormalindonesia hashtag tendto be negative by not supporting the implementation of new normal.

The press and Brazilian Foreign Policy: Brazil’s participation at the 1962 Punta del Este Conference

This paper seeks to comprehend how a portion of the Brazilian public opinion, specifically the press, understood Brazil’s participation in the Eighth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, in January 1962 – the Punta del Este Conference. This was a decisive meeting since it culminated in the expulsion of Cuba from the Organization of American States (OAS), because of the pressure exerted by the United States. Brazil distinguished itself for leading a group of countries against Cuba’s expulsion, based on the principle of self-determination and non-intervention. Although some authors believe the Punta del Este Conference to be the first event to massively mobilize the Brazilian public opinion around a foreign policy issue, they are not clear about what they understand as the concept of public opinion or how it positioned itself about Brazil’s participation in the Conference. Thus, this paper focuses on the coverage of three newspapers of national circulation (Jornal do Brasil, O Estado de São Paulo and Última Hora) between November 1961 and March 1962 to understand, through a content analysis method, how the press evaluated Brazil’s participation in the Punta del Este Conference. The results point to a bigger support of the Brazilian position and the Independent Foreign Policy.
 
 
 
 Recebido em: Agosto/2019.
 Aprovado em: julho/2020.

PUBLIC OPINION AND EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

The article discusses the concept of public opinion, its importance for the effective interaction of the state and various structures of civil society. Foreign methodologies, scientific theories and research, the development of the phenomenon of «public opinion» by foreign researchers, as well as an analysis of the effects of QMS on society. An attempt was also made to evaluate the experience of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan in optimizing public administration by introducing a system for assessing the effectiveness of government bodies.

Contradições da democracia e opinião pública

Este artigo consiste numa análise interdisciplinar com o auxílio de teorias filosóficas, sociológicas e políticas sobre as contradições da democracia e sua relação com a opinião pública a partir de três perspectivas: num primeiro momento aborda os modelos normativos de democracia diagnosticados por Habermas em Inclusão do Outro, e sua proposta de procedimento deliberativo com vistas a superar os limites dos modelos liberal e republicano; depois de expor um diagnóstico basilar dos modelos democráticos, apresenta alguns pontos concernentes às contradições da democracia contemporânea a partir das análises sociológicas e da ciência política de Charles Tilly. Num terceiro momento, aborda a democracia a partir do conceito hegeliano de opinião pública tendo em vista três componentes: a fenomenologia, a lógica e a política da opinião pública.Palavras-chave: Contradição; Democracia; Opinião Pública.

The Impact of Rumors on Public Opinion: أثر الإشاعة على الرأي العام

The study aimed to identify the impact of rumour on public opinion. In order to achieve this objective, the study discussed the concept of rumour, its characteristics, types, objectives, motives, stages of formation and conditions of success. The study also discussed the concept of public opinion, its characteristics, functions and composition, The study used the behavioural methodology.The study reviwed number of studies that investigated this relationship. The study revealed that there is a significant impact of rumour in terms of its ability to transform the concepts and direction of public opinion to achieve its goals.

Insurgentes o patriotas: opinión pública, libertad de imprenta y “oposición” política en la prensa grancolombiana (1821-1823)

Este artículo analiza la controversia entre las facciones santanderistas y nariñistas en torno a los conceptos de opinión pública, censura y libertad de imprenta, posibilitada por la creación y circulación de diversos periódicos entre 1821 y 1823. A través del estudio del lenguaje político y los circuitos de comunicación formados por siete impresos, se exponen los temas que causaron polémica entre dichos partidos y la manera como el vicepresidente y los sectores oficialistas intentaron imponer una visión unanimista de la opinión, atacando hasta su cierre a los papeles “opositores”. De esta manera, se rescata el rol de la prensa en la República de Colombia como forjadora de la esfera pública y dinamizadora del pluralismo político, luego de la proclamación de la Constitución de Cúcuta.

Do Public Opinion Polls actually Provide a Survey of Public Opinion?

Sociological debates about public opinion have to weigh up theoretical dilemmas. The first of these dilemmas concerns whether public opinion appeared only with the advent of modern society, or whether it was a phenomenon in other, earlier types of society. The second dilemma is associated with the opposites of «realistic» and «nominalistic» approaches. The third dilemma is the contradiction between «monistic» and «pluralistic» positions. However, if we proceed from the theory of public opinion to its survey, we find a surprising thing: all the mentioned theoretical dilemmas are irrelevant from the survey point of view. Researchers (pollsters) are basically satisfied with a concept of public opinion which can be described as «operational». According to this, public opinion is what is measured by polls of public opinion. The basic pitfall of the operational conception is that surveys which should capture and analyze public opinion can easily fit the purpose of their specific producer, as the method of surveying public opinion can be transformed into an instrument for shaping it.

Public opinion and collective subjectivity: a conceptual approach

ABSTRACTThis paper discusses the concept of public opinion at a theoretical level. It starts from the recognition of the importance of this concept for sociology and reconnects with older strands in sociology and neighboring disciplines which focused on it, such as social psychology and political science. In reviewing the literature, it collects its insights and endeavours to surmount its shortcomings, drawing upon the concept of collective subjectivity. It thus tackles the theorization of public opinion regarding varied levels of centering and intentionality, social interaction, individuals and sub-collectivities, as well as the dimensions of the constitution of collective subjectivities (hermeneutic-symbolic, material, of power and space-time). Finally, the paper discusses how permanence and change take place in what regards public opinion, pointing to the mechanisms related to social memory and creativity, as well as to rhythms of social development. Evaluative and political issues relative to public opinion as a decentred collective subjecivity are also discussed.

Spinning War and Peace: Foreign Relations and Public Relations on the Eve of World War II

The eve of World War II saw the development of direct connections between public relations experts and issues of foreign affairs in the United States. Public relations professionals assisted both internationalists and noninterventionists to spread their arguments across the nation, helping them to hone their messages, to organize, and to raise money. All of the main citizens’ organizations created during this period sought public relations assistance in the face of growing popular awareness of global events, and with an awareness of the need for public relations counsel in the face of an increasingly measurable concept of public opinion.

The Job of Creating Desire: Propaganda as an Apparatus of Government and Subjectification

ABSTRACT This article addresses shortcomings in the way that philosophers and cultural critics have considered propaganda by offering a new genealogical account. Looking at figures such as Marx, Adorno, Marcuse, Habermas, Bourdieu, and Stanley, this article finds that their consideration of propaganda has not necessarily been wrong but has missed some of the most significant and important functions of propaganda. This text draws on archival and published materials from propagandists, most notably Edward Bernays, to elaborate a new governmentality of propaganda and public relations. Through focusing on the concept of public opinion, I argue that propaganda is best thought of as an apparatus whose function it is to construct, modify, counter, and destroy relations of force within public opinion in order to produce the subjectivities and conduct that propagandists and their clients desire.