Analysis of coverage byfive major dailiesfinds no evidence of nationalagenda andclear
evidence of effect of local factors. b Most studies of media agenda-setting focus on political …

Public deliberation is essential to democracy, but the public can be fooled as well as
enlightened. In three case studies of media coverage in the 1990s, Benjamin Page explores …

This article reports the findings of the second in a series of field experiments on the agenda-
setting effects of news media investigative reports. The authors used a pretest-posttest quasi …

The news media, especially television, have become a fixture on Capitol Hill in the past
twenty years. Making Laws and Making News describes the interactive relationship between …

Perhaps the political parties structure of Israel since its establish-have reason to be satisfied
with the traditional forms of campaigning. The voter, for ment in 1948; despite the …

Previous studies have shown that a small number of Supreme Court decisions that
“rearrange [d] the… distribution of political benefits” have drawn the media's attention to the …

Media Usage and Political Activity Page 1 Research in Brief This department is devoted to
shorter reports on research in the communcations field. Readers are invited to submit …

Political science research on the media and politics has accomplished much in a brief time,
considering social and institutional impediments to innovations. Yet much more remains …

P Most media agenda-setting research carried out since McCombs' and Shaw's study of the
1968 US presidential election has tested the assertion that media emphasis on certain …

Democratic theorists assume that government policy responds to public opinion. But public
opinion may be influenced by other political actors through the mass media instead …