When you discussed the “spiral of silence” I could not help but think of Professor Timur Kuran’s work on Preference Falsification in this book Private Truths, Public Lies.
You may have come across this already, but if not I would highly encourage you, and any other listeners/readers that are interested in the topic, to read his work for an in-depth / analytical underpinning of the theory and for case studies and implications of such a phenomenon.
Professor Loury,
When you discussed the “spiral of silence” I could not help but think of Professor Timur Kuran’s work on Preference Falsification in this book Private Truths, Public Lies.
You may have come across this already, but if not I would highly encourage you, and any other listeners/readers that are interested in the topic, to read his work for an in-depth / analytical underpinning of the theory and for case studies and implications of such a phenomenon.