Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist, journalist, and academic (died 2010)

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

German political scientist (1916–2010)

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann was a German political scientist. Her most famous contribution is the model of the spiral of silence, detailed in The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion – Our Social Skin. The model is an explanation of how perceived public opinion can influence…