Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0343941

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0343941

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The politics of opinion: Individuals, groups, and the social psychology of opinion in the public sphere. Public opinion is crucial to democratic theory and practice, but its extensive multi-disciplinary literature is littered with contested definitions. One major (and heated) debate concerns whether public opinion should, in principle, comprise the views of individuals, as aggregated in polls, or of groups, as expressed through collective statements and action. This project examines public opinion in reality rather than in principle, using social psychology to predict that individuated and group-based representations serve distinct purposes for specific social actors under specific social and political conditions. It offers new answers to longstanding questions about the role of citizen opinion in democratic politics.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2003

End Date: 31-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $172,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Psychology | Social And Community Psychology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding political systems | Government and politics not elsewhere classified | Behavioural and cognitive sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Government and politics not elsewhere classified | Psychology | Social And Community Psychology | Understanding political systems

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