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The Power of Silence? Opinion Contagion and the Surprise of the Polish 2005 Parliamentary and Presidential Elections

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Bartha E., Wolszczak-Derlacz J.
Polish Sociological Review
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2009
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vol. 165
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issue 1
123-138
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This paper investigates opinion contagion in collective behaviour using threshold model (Granovetter (1978)). The theoretical background is the spiral of silence concept developed by Noelle-Neumann (1974), arguing that people only assert their opinions if they perceive a minimal support from a relevant proportion of others. We apply the model to explain the dispersion between pre-elections preferences and the final results of the Polish parliamentary and presidential elections in 2005. It is shown that the minority opinions were more widely-held than was declared in opinion polls as a consequence of different distributions of the threshold values of opinion assertion.
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