Public Opinion Polls Regarding Public Preference
Nazo Maghakian

REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC OPINION POLLS

Review and Analysis of Public Opinion Polls Regarding Public Preference

What is Public Opinion Poll?

Public Polling Changing History

Charter of Values

Support for the Charter

Favor of the Charter

Shifting of the Polls

Public Fears

Undecided Polls

Minorities and the Rest of Canada

Gender equality

Stereotyping and Tension

Policy responsiveness is a question that tends to rise during any political parties campaign. Policy responsiveness is described as the "ability to readily react to suggestions, influences, appeals or efforts" (Free Dictionary, 2014) Does a political party have the capacity to respond to the preferences of its citizens? The primary purpose of a democratic system is this exact ability to respond to the citizens. However, as we see time and time again, this is easier said than done. In the following few paragraphs, the focus will be to review and analyze public opinion polls and see if the political party…...

Leaders are becoming an increasingly important target for marketers. These opinion leaders allow marketers to focus in on the coveted personal, word-of-mouth advertising market, thus personalizing and legitimizing a product. Targeting opinion leaders can be highly effective after a product has penetrated the market, but new products often benefit little from targeting opinion leaders.
Opinion leaders are becoming important in marketing campaigns because they allow marketers to tap into the sometimes difficult to reach world of word-of-mouth advertising. Opinion leaders provide marketers with an opportunity to reach influential community leaders who will hopefully provide others with an influential 'recommendation' for a product, based on the marketer's campaign (Frost).

Marketers believe that buying behavior can be influenced by opinion leaders. Opinion leaders influence other consumers through direct, word of mouth insights and opinions. Marketers believe that the word-of-mouth recommendations of opinion leaders carry more weight with other consumers than do other forms…...

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Works Cited

Frost, Randall. Gaining Influence Through Word of Mouth. Brandchannel.com. 18 March 2004.  http://www.brandchannel.com/features_effect.asp?fa_id=196

Religious preference affect opinion sex marriage..
Religion has a strong influence on how people perceive the idea of sex before marriage, as while some religions consider it wrong to perform the practice others support it or are indifferent with regard to it. The fact that most world religions express an opinion concerning this matter reflects on society as a whole as there are numerous individuals who believe that it is morally wrong for a person to have sex with another person if they are not married. A culture's sexual norms are strongly connected with religious beliefs associated with the respective culture.

Sexual decisions are typically associated with personal choices as they are largely based on how individuals feel at the time when they are presented with the opportunity to engage in a sexual activity. However, social influences are particularly important when considering this topic. Religious practice and beliefs have a strong influence…...

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Works cited:

Carroll, Janell L., "Sexuality Now: Embracing Diversity," (Cengage Learning, 29.01.2009)

Helm, Herbert W., and McBride, Duane, "The Influence of a Conservative Religion on Premarital Sexual Behavior of University Students," North American Journal of Psychology, June 2009

Reynolds, Dynette, "Religious Influence and Premarital Sexual Experience: Critical Observations on the Validity of a Relationship," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Vol. 33, No. 4 (Dec., 1994), pp. 382-387

Uecker, Jeremy E., "Religion, Pledging, and the Premarital Sexual Behavior of Married Young Adults," Journal of Marriage and Family, August 2008

Public Opinion Crime, Criminal Justice, Related opics
Kahan, D. & Braman, D. (2003). More statistics, less persuasion: a cultural theory of gun-

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What is the objective / research question?

In this article, the discussion highlights the motivation of individuals, to take a stand as opposition or support to the regulation of guns. he objective of the research is the arguments that can provide a resolution to the gun control debate.

What is the hypothesis?

he hypothesis is that cultural orientations are a strong indicator of the likely position of the individual than any other factor (Kahan & Braman, 2003). From the cultural theory, we get the perception that economic analysis of the impact of the regulation of gun to violence and crime does not determine the position of the people.

What is/are the main dependent variable(s) (outcome measure(s)) and how is it/are they measured?

he dependent variables include the attitudes and perceptions of the individuals…...

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The variables show that the firearm is among the leading causes of injury and deaths. Statistics indicate that fatalities are more than 10% and 20% of childhood and teenage deaths respectively combined. Injuries are thrice the number of fatalities annually (Wiley & Casey, 1993). The unit analysis is on children involved in gun incidences. Unintentional shooting in children account for over half of the children incidences. This is only and directly related to the ready access of loaded guns at homes. The cases of shooting increase through childhood to adolescence and are at peak at young adulthood. The main factors that arise from this shooting implicate the male sex, the absence of parental supervision, the black sex, large size of family, lower socioeconomic status and inadequate training of gun safety and use (Wiley & Casey, 1993). Research further indicates that the shooting cases related to children and the adolescent are related to the television shows, video games and obscene movies. The violence depicted from these shows increases the curiosity of gun use in children. The statistics indicate a high prevalence in children watching violent games and television. The aggressive images of shooting in the television are the largest cause of the lack of safety at homes.

What was the conclusion?

The conclusion of

Similar protests launched in the United Kingdom around the same time period. And the results were altogether similar as well. In 1918, the British Parliament passed the Eligibility of Women Act, which allowed women to be elected into the Parliament. In 1928, the epresentation of the People Act granted women across the nation voting rights as equal to those as of the men. This was a major milestone achieved by women towards becoming a more active part of the political frame.

Margaret Thatcher, an Influential Woman

The eligibility to hold office and vote aided the feminine gender to grow their numbers in presence in the political arenas. Several women became popular and strong politicians throughout the twentieth century. One such woman was Margaret Hilda Thatcher, a British politician of the post World War Two era. Thatcher started her political career by becoming a Member of the British Parliament between 1959 and 1970.…...

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References

Eileen McDonough (2009), the Motherless State: Women's Political Leadership and American Democracy, University of Chicago Press

Jenkins, Peter (1987). Mrs. Thatcher's Revolution: Ending of the Socialist Era. Jonathan Cape.

Ramirez, Francisco O., Yasemin Soysal, and Suzanne Shanahan. 1997. "The Changing Logic of Political Citizenship: Cross-National Acquisition of Women's Suffrage Rights, 1890 to 1990," American Sociological Review. 62(5) pp 735 -- 45

Presidents strive to respond to the will of the people. Sometimes politicians are hampered by the fact that the public may desire legislation that is unconstitutional or not feasible, but politicians do seem to strive towards making the public happy. Moreover, when there is a negative downturn in a party or president's popularity, the politicians seem especially likely to respond. "Negative public opinion can have a powerful impact on policymaking. Low standing in the polls may encourage a president to drop an unpopular proposal or to promote new, supposedly more popular proposals" (Manza & Cook, 2002).
In fact, when investigating the empirical evidence, it appears that public opinion does shape policy. Erikson, Mackuen, and Stimson examined the question of whether the government responds to changes in public opinion and their answer was an "unqualified 'Yes'" (2002). In fact, they found that "Mood affects policy activity two ways" (Erikson, Mackuen, &…...

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References

Erikson, R., Mackuen, M. & Stimson, J. (2002). Public opinion and policy: Causal flow in a macro system mode. In J. Manza, F. Cook, and B. Page (Eds.), Navigating public opinion: polls, policy, and the future of American Democracy (pp.33-53). New York: Oxford University Press.

Manza, J. & Cook, F. (2002). The impact of public opinion on public policy: The state of the debate. In J. Manza, F. Cook, and B. Page (Eds.), Navigating public opinion: polls, policy, and the future of American Democracy (pp.17-32). New York: Oxford University Press.

Also, Bardes explains on page 194, "friends at school, teachers" and those whose opinions we hold "in high regard" influence us.
Does advertising influence public opinion? hy? Media advertising is very effective because today's technology can help his or her present the best case; to wit, a candidate can reach exactly the demographics he or she wants through "microtargeting," Bardes explains. Microtargeting allows the advertiser (or candidate) to "obtain an extensive amount of information -- much more than was possible before high-speed computers" and databases about potential, specific voter groups. Instead of just running the same political ad in every city in a particular state, microtargeting can "target" certain demographics (pro-choice women in San Francisco, for example, see one specific ad, and men concerned about immigration in San Diego get another ad with a specific theme to appeal to them). This is called demographic segmentation, and it's very important to…...

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Works Cited

Bardes, Barbara a., Shelley, Mack C., and Schmidt, Steffen W. American Government and Politics Today 2008: The Essentials. Florence, KY: Cengage Learning: 2008.

Druckman, James N., Kukliniski, James H., and Sigelman, Lee. "The Unmet Potential of Interdisciplinary Research: Political Psychological Approaches to Voting and Public

Opinion. Political Behavior, Vol. 31 (2009): 485-510.

PollingReport.com. "Direction of the Country." Retrieved January 11, 2011, from   (2011).http://www.pollingreport.com/right.htm .

There may be instances where the lay person's testimony would be difficult to understand for any number of reasons, but the opinion would help to clarify the testimony for the court. The opinion must therefore be directly related to the case. Superfluous opinion evidence is inadmissible; it must provide genuine value to the court's understanding of the case.
In South Carolina, the added c) clause implies that in addition to the above, the situation must be such that there is no expert witness who could otherwise provide the opinion in question. The only time, then, in South Carolina where lay persons may render opinion is in situations where any reasonable lay person could form such opinions. If the situation is such that the opinion cannot reasonably be formed except by an expert, the lay opinion is inadmissible. This essentially rules out the potential for a lay witness to contradict an…...

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Works Cited:

Federal Rules of Evidence retrieved April 7, 2009 from  http://www.ilnd.uscourts.gov/LEGAL/FREv/Fre00041.htm 

South Carolina Rules of Evidence retrieved April 7, 2009 from http://www.xprolegal.com/rules/Rules_SCarolina.pdf

North Carolina Rules of Evidence retrieved April 7, 2009 from  http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/PDF/ByArticle/Chapter_8C/Article_7.pdf

7). This point brings up one of the larger issues suggested by the opinion (which will be discussed in greater detail later), namely, the fact that the conflict between the law's position on jurisdiction and this kind of estoppel is "yet another case where the government has 'taken entirely irreconcilable positions regarding the jurisdiction of the federal courts," leading to increased litigation and cost (Lettow, 2012, p. 7). Thus, though he is reluctant, Lettow agreed that "draconian as it may be, this court nonetheless is compelled by law to ignore the government's prior acceptance of jurisdiction in the district court" (Lettow, 2012, p.7). Though this will be addressed in greater detail later, the problematic nature of this legal obligation is the fact that the time spent litigating the case in the district court, when Union Pacific believed that court to have jurisdiction, contributed to the expiration of the statue…...

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References

Anonymous. Taking on takings law. (1997). ABA Journal, 83, 74.

Carter, T. (1997). The court conjurer. ABA Journal, 83, 72-75.

Futey, B. (2012). Hartford fire insurance company v. The United States. United States Court of Federal Claims.

Kahan, M., & Edward, B.R. (2011). When the government is the controlling shareholder. Texas Law Review, 89(6), 1293-1364.

Supreme Court and Public Opinion
The Supreme Court of the United States was established in 1789 as part of the basic three sections of the American governmental system: Executive (President and Staff), Legislative (Congress), and Judicial (Supreme Court System). Each U.S. State also has a supreme court, which is the highest law for interpreting cases that move into that jurisdiction. Essentially, the Supreme Court has the ultimate jurisdiction over all federal and state courts regarding issues of Constitutional and Federal law. The sitting justices are nominated by the President, confirmed by the Senate, and are lifetime appointees unless they retire, resign, or are impeached (United States Constitution - Article III, 2011). As the highest court in the nation, then, we must ask if the Court influences public opinion, or is it the social and cultural processes rising from the public that influence the Constitutional interpretation from the Court?

The Justices, of course,…...

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Works Cited

United States Constitution - Article III. (2011, June). Retrieved from FindLaw:  http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/article03/ 

Goldstein, T. (2010, June 30). Evertyhting you read about the supreme Court is Wrong. Retrieved from Scotusblog.com:  http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/06/everything-you-read-about-the-supreme-court-is-wrong/ 

Haider-Markel, D., et al. (2006, April 11 (2)). Understanding Variations in Media Coverage of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions. Retrieved from The International Journal of Press/Politics:  http://hij.sagepub.com/content/11/2/64.abstract 

Johnson, T., & Martin, A. (1998, June 92 (2)). The Public's Conditional Response to Supreme Court Decisions. Retrieved from American Political Science Review:  http://adm.wustl.edu/media/pdfs/apsr98.pdf

Drugs and Alcohol Issues
Explain your opinion on the legalization of illicit drugs. Do you believe that legalizing drugs will "increase" or "decrease" drug abuse?

I think that some illicit recreational drugs should be legalized simply because they cannot be distinguished from licit recreational drugs such as alcohol and tobacco. Both tobacco and marijuana (for example) are leafy crops that can be harvested and smoked to provide various physiological sensations that users enjoy. Alcohol is a drug that does the same and that is also associated with various types of problematic behaviors. Whatever the "right" approach is, it cannot be to permit consumption of one substance like tobacco to be marketed for profit while subjecting consumers of another nearly identical substance like marijuana to criminal penalties. If it is appropriate to license the manufacture and tax the sale of tobacco, it is no less appropriate to do the same for marijuana. Meanwhile,…...

But, many citizens respond more favorably to "civilian-style uniforms" and in line with that, Bailey asserts that civilian attitudes towards police (ATP) are the "most positive" when in the presence of "non-authoritarian police officers" (682). hether a police chief in a medium size city could undertake a transformation from a military-style police uniform -- the style used almost universally in the U.S. And elsewhere -- to a more civilian-formatted uniform is problematic, but the idea is worth pursuing.
Authors Hahn and Jeffries explain -- through the research they accumulated -- that most people tend to "…shun or avoid individual contact with police officers" (Hahn, et al., 2003, p. 103). hy do people shy away from on-duty police officers? Hahn asserts that the hesitancy may be the result of "a general perception of police officers as agents of social control," which of course, in a way, is exactly the task of…...

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Works Cited

Bailey, William G. (1995). The Encyclopedia of Police Science. Florence, KY: Taylor & Francis.

Greene, Jack R. (2007). The Encyclopedia of Police Science, Volume 1. Florence, KY: Taylor & Francis.

Hahn, Harlan, and Jeffries, Judson L. (2003). Urban America and its Police: From the Post-

Colonial Era Through the Turbulent 1960s. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado.

The federal statutes with respect to witness testimony are the most extensive of the three measured. In some instances, the state statutes are based on older versions of the federal statute, which explains the omissions of some clauses. North Carolina has added an extensive section to Rule 702 in order to govern the use of expert testimony in cases of medical malpractice. hile this is a matter of state jurisdiction, South Carolina has taken no steps towards implementing these testimony regulations to its own Article VII.

One difference between the federal statute and those in both of the Carolinas is that the federal statute has retained the clause in Rule 703 that states "Facts or data that are otherwise inadmissible shall not be disclosed to the jury by the proponent of the opinion or inference unless the court determines that their probative value in assisting the jury to evaluate the expert's…...

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Works Cited:

Article VII: Opinions and Expert Testimony. Cornell University. Retrieved April 12, 2009 from  http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rules.htm#Rule702 

North Carolina General Statutes Article 7 -- Opinions and Expert Testimony. Justia. Retrieved April 12, 2009 from  http://law.justia.com/northcarolina/codes/chapter_8c/article_7.html 

South Carolina Rules of Evidence. Xprolegal.com. Retrieved April 12, 2009 from http://www.xprolegal.com/rules/Rules_SCarolina.pdf

For an elderly individual who has trouble consuming enough calories, whole milk or butter might be advisable, while for an obese person seeking to lose weight they would not. An athlete in training for distance events might benefit from high-carbohydrate foods such as honey, bananas, even candy or sports 'beans,' while a sedentary office worker would not.
The authors seem to attribute the cause of obesity and poor nutritional decisions to information or lack thereof. Americans have more information about food than ever before, and are heavier than they ever have been in the nation's history. Decisions about what are the 'perfect' foods, on a grading scale, will prove controversial. Heated debate will ensue between low-fat and low-carbohydrate advocates in the media in terms of the weight placed upon certain nutrients in the grading system. Interest groups representing potentially controversial foods, including as farmers, industrial corporations, and meat processers, will…...

Iran is important to the U.S. because the nation's leadership has proven to be unpredictable in their actions, which makes containing any nuclear ambitions a pressing national security objective.
2.) Why U.S. public opinion is important to foreign policy?

In a democratically operated nation like the U.S., all government policy is necessarily informed by the collective will of its citizenry, and foreign policy decisions must be made to reflect the prevailing public opinion. After two woefully misguided wars were launched in the Middle East following the September 11th terrorist attacks, the American public is rightfully wary of engaging in another protracted military conflict. While Iran may pose an existential threat to Israel, one of America's most important historical and strategic allies, any appeals by the federal government to engage in an escalated conflict would likely be met with resistance from a war weary public. According to the Pew esearch Center's Trends…...

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References

Khouri, Rami. "The Importance of Iran." Agence Global. 8.11 (2008): n. page. Print. .

Pew. "U.S. Foreign Policy: Key Data Points from Pew Research." Pew Research Center. (2013): Web. 9 May. 2013. .

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