TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ponting,J.Rick
TI  - The Nisga'a Treaty: Polling Dynamics and Political Communication in Comparative Context 
SN  - 9781551117904
AV  - E99.N734P65 2006 
U1  - 346.71104320899741 
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Government advertising
KW  - British Columbia
KW  - Government marketing
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Treaties
KW  - Niska Indians
KW  - Government relations
KW  - Claims
KW  - Public opinion polls
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Australia
KW  - Coursebook
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - The Nisga'a Treaty presents an inside story of the socio-political dynamics behind the massive polling and advertising campaign through which the Government of British Columbia "sold" the Nisga'a Treaty to British Columbians. A complementary chapter on the polling done on the Aboriginal reconciliation issue in Australia provides further international context. J. Rick Ponting's research draws from archival sources, stunningly frank Freedom of Information documents, and lengthy interviews with bureaucratic and political elites. This book has two purposes: to contribute to the understanding of an important event in the history of relations between government and Indigenous people in British Columbia and Australia, and to contribute to an understanding of the dynamics of public opinion polling in all its phases. The book explores the processes of marketing government policy to the public, which is to say, the shaping of public opinion. Accordingly, it speaks directly to the basic democratic issue of whether governments should lead, follow, or ignore public opinion on important policy issues
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ER  -