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Sparrow, Bartholomew. and Stroud, Natalie. "Making Public Opinion: Polling, the Media, and the United State's Response to 9/11" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-09 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p212076_index.html>

Sparrow, B. H. and Stroud, N. J. , 2007-08-30 "Making Public Opinion: Polling, the Media, and the United State's Response to 9/11" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-09 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p212076_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: U.S. foreign policy fundamentally changed direction after September 11, 2001. Our research studies public opinion as a key part of this shift in foreign policy, where the United States began a war against terrorism, invaded Afghanistan, and conquered Iraq. We study public opinion as a construct, however, rather than as either a resource or constraint (as some scholars conceive of public opinion), or as a response to policymakers and the media (as others view public opinion). We coded the content of thousands of foreign-policy related poll questions being asked between September 11, 2001, and October 11, 2002, and descriptions of public opinion in the media over the same period. Our research shows that the polls and the press (newsmagazines, the national press, and fifty randomly selected US newspapers) manufacture a public that consists of a majority of persons, persons who are inactive, present- and future-oriented, uncomplex, often insignificant, and easily distracted. More, we find very strong correlations between the topic agenda and framing of poll questions on public opinion, and the agenda and framing of news reports of public opinion. We conclude that in the polling organizations cannot be viewed as separate from the media firms for which they poll.

Public Opinion, Foreign Policy, and Democracy: The Influence of the Will of the Majority. A Paper Prepared for the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association

Public Opinions, Elite Faction and Foreign Policy in China: Anti Americanism and PRC (Re)action to the United States