Democracy through Public Opinion.

Public Opinion and Policy in Representative Democracy

Edmund Burke was a much better political philosopher than he was a politician. Burke was a Member of Parliament for Bristol for six years, from 1774 to 1780. He visited the constituency infrequently during that time, and managed to alienate his electorate through a combination of his rather unpatriotic support for America during the war and a general lack of attention to the principal concerns ...

What Makes a Search Engine Good for Democracy? PUBLIC OPINION POLLING AND THE EVALUATION OF SOFTWARE

We propose one possible set of criteria for evaluating software – specifically search engines – according to their usefulness for deliberative democracy. We then describe a user study of the search capabilities of three, existing, online archives (Google Groups, Omgili, or Technorati) of threaded, conversational data. Our study measures the capabilities of these search engines according to the ...

Democracy and Public Health.

Opinion: Conducting science in the public eye

Doing science is usually hidden behinds the wall of the lab and universities, and thus immune from immediate public scrutiny. The current COVID-19 pandemic has dragged the scientific process and its fruits in the public eye. In this short piece, I attempt to discuss the effect of conducting science in the public eye on the public’s perception of science and scientists.

public opinion and public policy (theoretical subject)

public opinion is one of the key elements that affects public policy. the importance of public opinion depends on the type of political system, and the process of public policy is also affected by the nature of political system. therefore the effect of public opinion on public policy is different, on the basis of the nature of the political system. the purpose of this article is to analyze this...