Public opinion

Most companies must learn to deal more creatively with local officials and public opinion. The social responsibility of companies can become an extremely important issue. Companies shoiild apply thoughtfulness and skill to the timing and conduc t of pubhc hearings. Management must recognize that local officials have views and constituencies that go beyond attracting new jobs. 

Agricola, G., "De Re Metallica," Basel, 1556. [English translation and commentary 1 C. Hoover and L. H. Hoover, Mining Magazine, London 1912]. Dover, New York, Beaver, Sir Hugh E. C., The growth of public opinion. In "Problems and Control ( Pollution" (F. S. Mallette, ed.). Reinhold, New York, 1955. 

Consumer Behavior, 8th ed. Hinsdale, IL Dryden Press. Farhar, B. C. (1994). Trends Public Opinion about Energy . Public Opinion Quarterly 5S(4) 603-632. 

At the present time, when customers and public opinion are demanding the accountability of laboratories... 

George Draper, Psychoanalysis—The Inward Eye, Scribner s Magazine Dec. 1931, 667ff. Source for public opinion of 1920s psychiatry, cited by Hermes. 

Today s situation is virtually the reverse. No new nuclear power plants are under construction in countries that have a competitive electricity market Also, because of World Bank and other lenders reluctance to assist construction of nuclear plant, there are questions how many of the 25 or so reactors, now under construction, will be completed. In countries where public opinion matters, people perceive the risks, but see few benefits, whilst the electricity industry and governments, with a few exceptions, such as France and S. Korea, are too concerned about the vociferous opposition to this power source to do anything, but sit on... 

The reality is that Americans who favor nuclear energy clearly outnumber those who are opposed Let me give you results of national public opinion polls that were conducted for NEI. 

Public opinion is quite favorable and promises to become more so as public and policymaker concern for the environment increases. Unfortunately, a lot of people do not know that. 

In survey after survey, we find that a majority of respondents personally favor nuclear energy but only about 20% or so believe that a majority of the public in their community shares their view. This misperception about public opinion is at least partly due to the fact that opponents of nuclear energy have typically been more outspoken than proponents. It s a problem, especially when policymakers hold this misperception, because it inhibits their willingness to take actions that they believe to be right but unpopular. 

The scare over, shouldn t normal men have felt like foolish rabbits running before the season began Not Carl Bosch. He was very sensitive to public opinion he d been criticized in France because the clouds of chlorine and mustard released without warning at Ypres had originated at Badische. In 1915, the Kaiser s rifles were about to become stovepipes when Bosch and Haber achieved their synthetic nitrate. 

This declaration of faith should have resounded in the Palace of Justice. No playwright could have conceived a more inspiring tragedy than the Farben judges, had they stood on the ashes of that other tyranny and exhorted free institutions to rise from their sleep. Such action alone could not have rescued our foreign policy from the fear on which it bases its appeal to public opinion, but it might have helped an alert public opinion to have seen its main current. 

If while Germany is still under some measure of Allied supervision, a controlling organ of public opinion boldly advocates an under-the-table "economic understanding" with Russia, how much... 

Figure 1-5 Results from a public opinion survey asking the question Would you say chemicals do more good than harm, more harm than good, or about the same amount of each Source The Detroit News.

Telesurveys Research Associates of Houston conducted the public opinion survey. Rosie Zamora, Dick Jaffe, and Barry Petree demonstrated patience and good cheer through the numerous revisions of the survey instrument. Dr. Eun-Sul Lee of the University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health and Dr. Sharon P. Cooper, now at the Texas A M University School of Rural Public Health, were the statistical consultants on the survey. 

Consider the case when a person s attitudes have been formed through the peripheral route to persuasion. With relatively low awareness and knowledge of food technology along with no established measures of benefits and risks, his or her attitudes could be swayed easily by peripheral cues such as public opinion, publicity, sound bites, source credibility, labeling,... 

Borre, O. 1990. Public opinion on gene technology in Denmark 1987 to 1989. Biotech. Forum. Eur. 7, 471-477. 

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