The Problem of the Status Quo Approach to Public Opinion

What is public opinion? Seems an easy question, does it not? The immediate response, whether one asked a member of the public or political scientist, would be that public opinion is simply how the entire population of a polity feel about a …

I am trying to track my thinking over time in how to model the behaviour of churches in response to public opinion changes on a given issue. Part 1 and Part 2 show that this has been a longer process than I anticipated. I am still trying to use the two-dimensional framework that I used in Part 2, …

I have been trying to develop a model to explain how church leaders react to changing public opinion regarding some issue. I had initially developed this preliminary flowchart:

But I wanted to formalize it, despite that not being in my wheelhouse at all. So I started off by making a list of every …