Voice of the people (Record no. 229613)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780195475104
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Classification number 303.385491 VOI
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Personal name Gilani, Ijaz Shafi. (ed.)
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Title Voice of the people
Remainder of title public opinion in Pakistan 2007-2009
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Karachi
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2010
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Extent 222p.
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Price amount 9000
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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
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Public opinion-Pakistan
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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

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