The Germans: Public Opinion Polls 1981-2001: 3

by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (Editor)

Among the oldest and best-known public opinion research institutes in Germany is the Institut fur Demoskopie in Allensbach. Since the early days of post-war Germany, they have tracked down political and social developments via its regular surveys. "The Germans includes the findings from 1981 to 2001, in English, along with extensive collections of data, brief commentaries and analyses.

600 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2006

About the author

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916 – 2010) was a German political scientist. Her most famous contribution is the model of the spiral of silence, detailed in The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion – Our Social Skin. The model is an explanation of how perceived public opinion can influence individual opinions or actions.