Michael A. Genovese is Loyola Chair of Leadership Studies and Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of many books, including The Power of the American Presidency: 1789–2000 and The Presidential Dilemma: Leadership in the American System. Matthew J. Streb is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University and the author of The New Electoral Politics of Race.

• List of Tables and Figures Preface 1. Polling and the Dilemmas of DemocracyMatthew J. Streb and Michael A. Genovese 2. Presidents, Polls, and the Paradox of Democratic GovernanceMichael A. Genovese 3. Presidential Leadership and the Threat to Popular SovereigntyLawrence R. Jacobs and Melinda S. Jackson 4. Continuing to Campaign: Public Opinion and the White HouseDiane J. Heith 5. Do Polls Give the Public a Voice in a Democracy?Michael W. Traugott 6. When Push Comes to Shove: Push Polling and the Manipulation of Public OpinionMatthew J. Streb and Susan H. Pinkus 7. Are Exit Polls Bad for Democracy?Gerald C. Wright 8. Deliberative Polling, Public Opinion, and Democratic TheoryJames S. Fishkin 9. Polling in a Robust DemocracyMichael A. Genovese and Matthew J. Streb References List of Contributors Index

Michael A. Genovese is Loyola Chair of Leadership Studies and Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of many books, including The Power of the American Presidency: 1789–2000 and The Presidential Dilemma: Leadership in the American System. Matthew J. Streb is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University and the author of The New Electoral Politics of Race.

• List of Tables and Figures Preface 1. Polling and the Dilemmas of DemocracyMatthew J. Streb and Michael A. Genovese 2. Presidents, Polls, and the Paradox of Democratic GovernanceMichael A. Genovese 3. Presidential Leadership and the Threat to Popular SovereigntyLawrence R. Jacobs and Melinda S. Jackson 4. Continuing to Campaign: Public Opinion and the White HouseDiane J. Heith 5. Do Polls Give the Public a Voice in a Democracy?Michael W. Traugott 6. When Push Comes to Shove: Push Polling and the Manipulation of Public OpinionMatthew J. Streb and Susan H. Pinkus 7. Are Exit Polls Bad for Democracy?Gerald C. Wright 8. Deliberative Polling, Public Opinion, and Democratic TheoryJames S. Fishkin 9. Polling in a Robust DemocracyMichael A. Genovese and Matthew J. Streb References List of Contributors Index

Michael A. Genovese is Loyola Chair of Leadership Studies and Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of many books, including The Power of the American Presidency: 1789–2000 and The Presidential Dilemma: Leadership in the American System. Matthew J. Streb is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University and the author of The New Electoral Politics of Race.

• List of Tables and Figures Preface 1. Polling and the Dilemmas of DemocracyMatthew J. Streb and Michael A. Genovese 2. Presidents, Polls, and the Paradox of Democratic GovernanceMichael A. Genovese 3. Presidential Leadership and the Threat to Popular SovereigntyLawrence R. Jacobs and Melinda S. Jackson 4. Continuing to Campaign: Public Opinion and the White HouseDiane J. Heith 5. Do Polls Give the Public a Voice in a Democracy?Michael W. Traugott 6. When Push Comes to Shove: Push Polling and the Manipulation of Public OpinionMatthew J. Streb and Susan H. Pinkus 7. Are Exit Polls Bad for Democracy?Gerald C. Wright 8. Deliberative Polling, Public Opinion, and Democratic TheoryJames S. Fishkin 9. Polling in a Robust DemocracyMichael A. Genovese and Matthew J. Streb References List of Contributors Index