Politicians Don't Pander

Lawrence R Jacobs

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• Public opinion polls are everywhere. Journalists report their results without hesitation, and political activists of all kinds spend millions of dolla... Lees meer

Dangerous Frames

Nicholas J G Winter

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• In addition to their obvious roles in American politics, race and gender also work in hidden ways to profoundly influence the way we think-and vote-ab... Lees meer

Who Leads Whom?

Brandice Canes-Wrone

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• Who Leads Whom? is an ambitious study that addresses some of the most important questions in contemporary American politics: Do presidents pander to p... Lees meer

Why Welfare States Persist

Clem Brooks

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• The world's richer democracies all provide such public benefits as pensions and health care, but why are some far more generous than others? And why, ... Lees meer

Why Americans Hate Welfare

Martin Gilens

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• Tackling one of the most volatile issues in contemporary politics, Martin Gilens's work punctures myths and misconceptions about welfare policy, publi... Lees meer

Projections of Power

Robert M Entman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• To succeed in foreign policy, U.S. presidents have to sell their versions or framings of political events to the news media and to the public. But sin... Lees meer

Talking about Politics

Katherine Cramer Walsh

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• Whether at parties, around the dinner table, or at the office, people talk about politics all the time. Yet while such conversations are a common part... Lees meer

Racialized Politics

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• Are Americans less prejudiced now than they were thirty years ago, or has racism simply gone "underground"? Is racism something we learn as children, ... Lees meer

Governing With the News, Second Edition

Timothy E Cook

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• The ideal of a neutral, objective press has proven in recent years to be just that-an ideal. In Governing with the News, Timothy E. Cook goes far beyo... Lees meer

In Defense of Negativity

John G Geer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• Americans tend to see negative campaign ads as just that: negative. Pundits, journalists, voters, and scholars frequently complain that such ads under... Lees meer

American Business and Political Power

Mark A Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• Most people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this controversial bo... Lees meer

Processing Politics

Doris a Graber

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• How often do we hear that Americans are so ignorant about politics that their civic competence is impaired, and that the media are to blame because th... Lees meer

Mobilizing Public Opinion

Taeku Lee

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• What motivates us to change our opinions during times of political protest and social unrest? To investigate this question, Taeku Lee's smartly argued... Lees meer

The Black Image in the White Mind

Robert M Entman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans not through personal relationships but through the images the media show... Lees meer