Voice of the people (Record no. 229613)
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 9780195475104 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 303.385491 VOI |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | Gilani, Ijaz Shafi. (ed.) |
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Voice of the people |
Remainder of title | public opinion in Pakistan 2007-2009 |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Karachi |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Oxford University Press |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2010 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | 222p. |
365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
Price amount | 9000 |
365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
Unit of pricing | RS |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | The purpose of this book is to meaningfully discuss what Pakistanis thought as a collectivity about various local and international issues during 2007-08. It covers a diverse range of subjects from democracy, war on terror, to religious inclinations and consumption preferences. Furthermore, it dispels various fallacies about public behaviour for example misconceptions that since the Pakistani public is largely illiterate it is incapable of understanding the complexities of governance or judicious foreign policies, that it approves of wholesale violence in the name of religion, that it is unaware of global climatic changes and is hardly bothered about issues beyond basic necessities. Careful analysis of the data disproves or qualifies these misconceptions which flourish because measuring popular opinion is difficult while passing off unsubstantiated generalizations about an amorphous entity is easy. The only credible method for measuring public opinion is through scientifi |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Public opinion-Pakistan |
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Koha item type | Books |
Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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Not Missing | Not Damaged | Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2020-02-08 | 9000.00 | 303.385491 VOI | 146431 | 2020-02-08 | 9000.00 | 2020-02-08 | Books |