Essay by Fried cited in New Yorker article on polls, democracy
An essay written by Amy Fried, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was cited in the New Yorker article, “Politics and the new machine: What the turn from polls to data science means for democracy.” The article mentioned the book “The Pollsters: Public Opinion, Politics, and Democratic Leadership,” which was published in 1949 and written by Lindsay Rogers, a political scientist and the Burgess Professor of Public Law at Columbia. Rogers started out as a journalist and, as a scholar, he was a humanist at a time when most students of government had turned away from the humanities and toward social science, according to the article. In an essay about “what was lost in that abandonment,” Fried called him “the Forgotten Lindsay Rogers,” the article states.