’n Steekproef van 47 Blanke Suid-Afrikaners is bestudeer met die oog op hulle ervaringe van en houding teenoor nieortodokse genesers. Die uitslag van die beperkte ondersoek beklemtoon die uiters mitiese aard van wat deurgaan vir wat algemeen bekend is oor alternatiewe praktisyns. Verskeie bedenksels word ondersoek en daar word tot die slotsom gekom dat Blanke Suid-Afrikaners gewoonlik deeglik b...

Solicited public opinion surveys reach a limited subpopulation of willing participants and are expensive to conduct, leading to poor time resolution and a restricted pool of expert-chosen survey topics. In this study, we demonstrate that unsolicited public opinion polling through sentiment analysis applied to Twitter correlates well with a range of traditional measures, and has predictive power...

W investigate whether public opinion influences the level and structure of executive compensation. During 1992–2008, the negativity of press coverage of chief executive officer (CEO) pay varied significantly, with stock options being the most criticized pay component. We find that after more negative press coverage of CEO pay, firms reduce option grants and increase less contentious types of pa...

public diplomacy is an idiom that has been noticed increasingly in last decades due to extension of internet and satellite news networks. this type of diplomacy be used related to influence, guidance and mobilization of public opinion for the aims of governmental and non-governmental agents. in this article, the author tried to give analytical answer to this question: in spite of being newest, ...

Title of dissertation: PUBLIC OPINION, POLITICAL REPRESENTATION, AND DEMOCRATIC CHOICE Michael J. Zenz, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Assistant Professor Eric Pacuit Professor Christopher W. Morris Department of Philosophy In this dissertation I argue that political representatives have duties to be responsive to public opinion in their policy decisions. The existence of ...

One can express personal experiences and opinions on hot events. For a public opinion, netizen may support or oppose it. The research of the affective tendency of netizen on public opinion is of great value. In this paper, we analyze the features of public opinion sentence and making use of natural language processing techniques to introduce a new approach that can compute the affective tendenc...