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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “maxwell mccombs”
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  • Setting the Agenda

    Mass Media and Public Opinion

    by Maxwell McCombs, Sebastian Valenzuela ...
    News media strongly influence how we picture public affairs across the world, playing a significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention and action. Setting the Agenda, first published in 2004, has become the go-to textbook on this crucial topic.In this timely third edition, Maxwell McCombs – a pioneer of agenda-setting research – and ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Contemporary Public Opinion

    Issues and the News

    by Maxwell McCombs ...
    This book discusses the public opinion process with a focus on the role that the news media play in shaping public opinion. Although heavily influenced by the agenda-setting perspective -- the view that the news media define the important issues of the day and determine how these issues are presented -- the authors neither support nor refute this claim. They present instead a variety of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Power of Information Networks

    New Directions for Agenda Setting

    Edited by Lei Guo, Maxwell McCombs ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society
    The news media have significant influence on the formation of public opinion. Called the agenda-setting role of the media, this influence occurs at three levels. Focusing public attention on a select few issues or other topics at any moment is level one. Emphasizing specific attributes of those issues or topics is level two. The Power of Information Networks: The Third Level of Agenda Setting ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Policy Analysis in the United States

    by Michael O'Hare, Steven R. Smith, Erik Godwin, Michael Holland, Philip Joyce, Rebecca A. Maynard, B. Guy Peters, Nadia Rubaii, Andrew Rich, Maxwell McCombs, Annelise Russell, Scott H Ainsworth, Raymond J La Raja, Zachary Albert, William G Jacoby, Saundra K Schneider, Julia Lane, Kuang-Ting Tai, Nicholet Deschine Parkhurst, David Swindell, Karen Mossberger, Gary VanLandingham, Laurence E Lynn, Frank Fischer, Beryl Radin, David L Weimer ...
    Series Book 12 - International Library of Policy Analysis
    Policy Analysis in the United States brings together contributions from some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners of public policy analysis including Beryl Radin, David Weimer, Rebecca Maynard, Laurence Lynn, and Guy Peters.This volume represents an indispensable companion to other volumes in the International Library of Policy Analysis series, enabling scholars to compare cross ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Poll With A Human Face

    The National Issues Convention Experiment in Political Communication

    Edited by Maxwell Mccombs, Amy Reynolds ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    In 1996, the National Issues Convention (NIC) assembled a national sample of 459 Americans on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. This diverse group of Americans was seen and heard nationally. They spent three days in small group discussions of major public issues and participated in two live PBS telecasts moderated by Jim Lehrer where they questioned Vice President Al Gore and four ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Public Opinion

    by Carroll J. Glynn ...
    Public Opinion is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of public opinion in the United States. Drawing on scholarship in political science, psychology, sociology, and communications, the authors explore the nature of political and social attitudes in the United States and how these attitudes are shaped by various institutions, with an emphasis on mass media. The book also serves as a ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • In Praise of Skepticism

    Trust but Verify

    by Pippa Norris ...
    A culture of trust is usually claimed to have many public benefits--by lubricating markets, managing organizations, legitimating governments, and facilitating collective action. Any signs of its decline are, and should be, a matter of serious concern. Yet, In Praise of Skepticism recognizes that trust has two faces. Confidence in anti-vax theories has weakened herd immunity. Faith in Q-Anon ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Framing Public Life

    Perspectives on Media and Our Understanding of the Social World

    Edited by Stephen D. Reese, Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., August E. Grant ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    This distinctive volume offers a thorough examination of the ways in which meaning comes to be shaped. Editors Stephen Reese, Oscar Gandy, and August Grant employ an interdisciplinary approach to the study of conceptualizing and examining media. They illustrate how texts and those who provide them powerfully shape, or "frame," our social worlds and thus affect our public life. Embracing ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Handbook of Political Communication Research

    Edited by Lynda Lee Kaid ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    The Handbook of Political Communication Research is a benchmark volume, defining the most important and significant thrusts of contemporary research and theory in political communication. Editor Lynda Lee Kaid brings together exemplary scholars to explore the current state of political communication research in each of its various facets. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of political ... Read more

    $150.00 USD

  • Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective

    by Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen, Nael Jebril, Claes H. de Vreese ...
    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    Political journalism is often under fire. Conventional wisdom and much scholarly research suggest that journalists are cynics and political pundits. Political news is void of substance and overly focused on strategy and persons. Citizens do not learn from the news, are politically cynical, and are dissatisfied with the media. This book challenges these assumptions, which are often based on single ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters

    by Jonathan M. Ladd ...
    As recently as the early 1970s, the news media was one of the most respected institutions in the United States. Yet by the 1990s, this trust had all but evaporated. Why has confidence in the press declined so dramatically over the past 40 years? And has this change shaped the public's political behavior? This book examines waning public trust in the institutional news media within the context of ... Read more

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  • Multiculturalism and Diversity

    A Social Psychological Perspective

    by Bernice Lott ...
    Series series Contemporary Social Issues
    Multiculturalism and Diversity focuses on the ways in which history and identity inform each other, and examines the politics of culture as well as the politics of cultural identities within the U.S.Illustrates the basic proposition that each of us is a unique multicultural human being and that culture affects individual self-definition, experience, behavior, and social interactionMoves from early ... Read more

    $42.00 USD