Seducing America: How Television Charms the Modern Voter. By Roderick P. Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 230p. $25.00
In: American political science review, Band 89, Heft 1, S. 203-205
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: American political science review, Band 89, Heft 1, S. 203-205
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: Polity: the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Band 28, S. 1-23
ISSN: 0032-3497
Examines factors affecting the production, representation, and influence of political ideas in a democracy, as demonstrated by the creation of new tax policy. Discusses the influence of election and party systems, campaign finance methods, interest group systems, and the mass media; focuses on the US Tax Reform Act of 1986 and the Swedish Tax Reform Act of 1990.
In: Political studies, Band 43, Heft 4, S. 645-663
ISSN: 0032-3217
In: Political communication, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 395-412
ISSN: 1058-4609
In: Polity: the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 1-24
ISSN: 0032-3497
In: Political communication: an international journal, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 395-412
ISSN: 1091-7675
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 43, Heft 4, S. 645-663
ISSN: 1467-9248
The question addressed in this analysis is one with broad theoretical and comparative implications: how do key political and social institutions, which we call regulatory mechanisms, affect the marketplace of ideas in different polities? First, election and party systems, interest groups, political financing, and the mass media are identified as the most obvious market mechanisms operating to regulate the flow of ideas in democratic societies. Second, this framework is then applied to case studies of party and candidate rhetoric in recent Swedish and American national elections. Although more developed in the United States than in Sweden, both cases reveal a drift toward negative equilibrium in the marketplace, characterized by the decline of party loyalties and voting participation, along with a widespread loss of faith in politicians and political language.
In: Polity, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 1-23
ISSN: 1744-1684
In: American politics and political economy series
A view from the Press / Marvin Kalb -- A view from the military / Lietenant General Thomas W. Kelly (Ret.) -- A view from the academy / Bernard C. Cohen -- The News about foreign policy / W. Lance Bennet -- Media coverage of Saddam's Iraq, 1979-1990 / Glady's Engel Lang and Kurt Lang -- The establishing phase of the Persian Gulf Policy Debate / William A. Dorman and Steven Livingston -- The Iraq War debate and the limits to media independence / Robert M. Entman and Benjamin I. Page -- Washington newsbeats and network news after the Iraq invasion of Kuwait / Timothy I. Cook -- Managing Kuwait's image during the gulf conflict / Jarol B. Manheim -- The gulf war as popular culture and television drama / Daniel V. Hallin and Todd Gitlin -- A study of agenda-setting, priming and framing / Shanto Iyengar and Adam Simon -- New evidence from the gulf war / John Zaller -- The media and public support for the President / Richard A. Brody -- A mutual exploitation model of media influence in U.S. foreign policy / Patrick O'Heffernan -- Strategic politicians, public opinion, and the gulf crisis / John Zaller -- Just Deserts? / David L. Palatz
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In: Political communication, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 101-120
ISSN: 1058-4609
Explores the various images of publics in democratic theory & identifies the ideological uses of the leading definitions of public opinion. The argument shows why sweeping theories of the consciousness of publics inevitably fail to explain patterns of opinion formation, yet do support competing ideologies of power in society & government. An alternative analytical framework is suggested, based on the symbolic construction of public opinion following the work of Murray Edelman. 32 References. AA
In: Political communication: an international journal, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 101-120
ISSN: 1091-7675
In: American political science review, Band 87, Heft 3, S. 795-796
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: Political communication, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 331-351
ISSN: 1058-4609
Examines how the news media portrayed the 1990/91 Persian Gulf conflict to the US population, & the degree to which this portrayal facilitated or impeded timely & meaningful public debate about policy responses to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Content analysis of stories in the New York Times suggests that: the range of media coverage was established at each stage of the crisis by the range of "official" debate; like that debate, the range of in-depth views presented was quite narrow; & media cues throughout the crisis reflected those propounded by the administration & its allies. It is concluded that the public did not have reasonable access to a sufficiently broad range of information & opinion to make independent judgments about the wisdom of administration policy. 8 Figures, 16 References. Adapted from the source document.
In: Political communication, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 331-441
ISSN: 1058-4609
Analyzes the effect of extensive television coverage on public opinion in the Gulf war; 6 articles; US, chiefly.