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| public opinion definitions | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | how people think or feel about particular things | 13 sets | |
| 2 | the distribution of individual preferences for or evaluations of a given issue, candidate, or institution within a specific population. | 12 sets | |
| 3 | a body of attitudes, beliefs, and views pertaining to specific issues held by a significant proportion of a society. | 12 sets | |
| 4 | the distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and policy issues | 10 sets | |
| 5 | includes the ideas and attitudes that most people hold about elected officials, candidates, government, and political issues | 6 sets | |
| 6 | how people think or feel about particular things. | 6 sets | |
| 7 | a body of attitudes, beliefs, and views pertaining to specific issues held by a significant proportion of a society | 6 sets | |
| 8 | a colleciton of shared attitudes of citizens about government, politics, and the making of public policy | 6 sets | |
| 9 | the distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and policy issues. | 5 sets | |
| 10 | the ideas and attitudes that most people hold about elected officials, candidates, government, and political issues | 4 sets | |
| 11 | the complex collection of the opinions of many different people; the sum of all their views | 4 sets | |
| 12 | what the public thinks about a particular issue or set of issues at any point in time | 4 sets | |
| 13 | citizens' attitudes about political issues, leaders, institutions, and events | 4 sets | |
| 14 | aggregate of preferences and opinions of individuals on significant issues | 3 sets | |
| 15 | point of view held by most people | 3 sets | |
| 16 | the point of view held by the majority of people | 3 sets | |
| 17 | the distribution of population's belief about politics and policy issues | 2 sets | |
| 18 | a belief or sentiment shared by most people | 2 sets | |
| 19 | the point of view held by most people | 2 sets | |
| 20 | the distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue, candidate, or institution within a specific population. | 2 sets | |
| 21 | the collected attitudes of citizens concerning a given issue or question. | 2 sets | |
| 22 | a body of attitudes, beliefs, and views pertaining to specific issues held by a significant proportion of society. | 2 sets | |
| 23 | the distribution of individual preferences for or evaluations of a given issue, candidate, or institution within a specific population | 2 sets | |
| 24 | includes the ideas and attitudes that more people hold about elected officials, candidates, government, and political issues. | 2 sets | |
| 25 | political attitudes and core beliefs expressed by ordinary citizens as revealed by surveys | 2 sets | |
| 26 | views prevalent among the general public. | 2 sets | |
| 27 | what the public thinks about a particular issue or set of issues at any point in time. | 2 sets | |
| 28 | the collective opinion of many people on some issue, problem, etc., esp. as a guide to action, decision, or the like. | 2 sets | |
| 29 | the ideas and attitudes that most people hold about elected officials,candidates,goverment,and political issue. | 2 sets | |
| 30 | the ideas and attitudes that most people hold about government | 2 sets | |
| 31 | "those opinions held by private persons which governments find it prudent to heed" | 1 set | |
| 32 | the point of view held by the majority | 1 set | |
| 33 | a new social force which was the collective effect on political and social life of views circulated in print | 1 set | |
| 34 | ideas and attitudes that most people hold about elected officials, candidates, governments, and political issues | 1 set | |
| 35 | what the public thinks about a particular issue at any given time. | 1 set | |
| 36 | what the people of a community think | 1 set | |
| 37 | the ideas and attitudes that most people hold about elected officials, candidates, governments and political issues. | 1 set | |
| 38 | the total of the opinions held concerning a particular issue. | 1 set | |
| 39 | opinions are not stable and reflect the wording of polls and the order in which options are presented. | 1 set | |
| 40 | the collection of differing attitudes that members of a public have about a particular issue. | 1 set | |