Social Spillovers of Political Polarization Gregory Huber Yale
... partners to influence one another’s views or behaviors after meeting, either through persuasion or sharing the same environment; (2) social structures (e.g., residential segregation) constraining the types of people to whom one is exposed; (3) choice homophily along dimensions other than politics su ...
... partners to influence one another’s views or behaviors after meeting, either through persuasion or sharing the same environment; (2) social structures (e.g., residential segregation) constraining the types of people to whom one is exposed; (3) choice homophily along dimensions other than politics su ...
BTI 2016 | Executive Summary
... vacuum that terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State have filled with destructive power. The ordeal in Ukraine, where separatist and hegemonic aspirations challenge a fragile country in transition, calls to mind the unresolved geopolitical conflicts in the post-Soviet region. Even in some e ...
... vacuum that terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State have filled with destructive power. The ordeal in Ukraine, where separatist and hegemonic aspirations challenge a fragile country in transition, calls to mind the unresolved geopolitical conflicts in the post-Soviet region. Even in some e ...
Epistocracy: Conceptual Clarifications.
... knowledge, and other ways of reasoning than technocratic reasoning. In the end technocracy is a category that is far too narrow to capture the variations of knowledgebased rule in democratic societies. The epistocracy-typology sketched here is also constructed to facilitate more specific and unpreju ...
... knowledge, and other ways of reasoning than technocratic reasoning. In the end technocracy is a category that is far too narrow to capture the variations of knowledgebased rule in democratic societies. The epistocracy-typology sketched here is also constructed to facilitate more specific and unpreju ...
Images of Media Power: The Third-Person Effect and the Shaping of
... others. It could also be a caused by an underestimation of effects on oneself. A number of studies have tried to answer this question. The results show the discrepancy between perceived effect on self and others depend on peoples tendency to believe others are more vulnerable to media messages than ...
... others. It could also be a caused by an underestimation of effects on oneself. A number of studies have tried to answer this question. The results show the discrepancy between perceived effect on self and others depend on peoples tendency to believe others are more vulnerable to media messages than ...
PIP 2004 Campaign
... reflect the entire internet-using population, the preferences and needs of this audience have changed. In the early days of online politics, when the online audience was quite elite and highly politically engaged, online news consumers liked the internet most because it provided information from non ...
... reflect the entire internet-using population, the preferences and needs of this audience have changed. In the early days of online politics, when the online audience was quite elite and highly politically engaged, online news consumers liked the internet most because it provided information from non ...
Study Guide - Cengage Learning
... The Process of Forming Political Opinions A minority of citizens form their political opinions around ideology; most citizens rely on other factors. This chapter considers three strategies for forming opinions: considering self-interest, processing information, or relying on cues from political lead ...
... The Process of Forming Political Opinions A minority of citizens form their political opinions around ideology; most citizens rely on other factors. This chapter considers three strategies for forming opinions: considering self-interest, processing information, or relying on cues from political lead ...
Kenneth Minogue: Politics - Digital Commons @ Liberty University
... despot” in the reading by Herodotus below. His absolute power is also on display in the Book of Esther. Edward Said has challenged what he considered to be a Western cultural bias in his book Orientalism, which is an example of postmodern scholarship and deconstructionism. (1-3) ...
... despot” in the reading by Herodotus below. His absolute power is also on display in the Book of Esther. Edward Said has challenged what he considered to be a Western cultural bias in his book Orientalism, which is an example of postmodern scholarship and deconstructionism. (1-3) ...
Abstract: This paper uses the case of political instability
... demonstrate the dynamic between the United States and Cuba that must be considered whenever attempting to understand early Republican politics. Specifically, it seeks to reconcile two predominate trends within the current literature. The first of these sees the United States as culpable for the shor ...
... demonstrate the dynamic between the United States and Cuba that must be considered whenever attempting to understand early Republican politics. Specifically, it seeks to reconcile two predominate trends within the current literature. The first of these sees the United States as culpable for the shor ...
Press Freedom in the European Union and Candidate Countries: A
... Although international monitoring organizations have historically expressed incidental concerns about press freedom in individual European countries, recent evidence indicates that press freedom may be declining across the EU on a regionally unprecedented scale.This paper explores the interaction be ...
... Although international monitoring organizations have historically expressed incidental concerns about press freedom in individual European countries, recent evidence indicates that press freedom may be declining across the EU on a regionally unprecedented scale.This paper explores the interaction be ...
Lesson 1 - public opinion
... Public opinion plays two key roles in a democracy. 1. public opinion helps shape the decisions that officials make. -government officials often travel back to their districts to meet with voters and talk about bills that are up for a vote. -These officials recognize that if they are to represent the ...
... Public opinion plays two key roles in a democracy. 1. public opinion helps shape the decisions that officials make. -government officials often travel back to their districts to meet with voters and talk about bills that are up for a vote. -These officials recognize that if they are to represent the ...
Dependent variables
... Weingast photo “Success in economic as well as political development depends primarily ...
... Weingast photo “Success in economic as well as political development depends primarily ...
A liberalism betrayed? American neoconservatism and the theory of
... Podhoretz explained in a 1981 article, ‘saw the Soviet-Union as a nation-state like any other, motivated by the same range of interests that define and shape the foreign policy of all nation-states’.24 According to Podhoretz and his colleagues, this was a gross underestimation of the role of domesti ...
... Podhoretz explained in a 1981 article, ‘saw the Soviet-Union as a nation-state like any other, motivated by the same range of interests that define and shape the foreign policy of all nation-states’.24 According to Podhoretz and his colleagues, this was a gross underestimation of the role of domesti ...
The Role of Qualitative Methods in Political Communication
... communication. Quantitative research methods generally, and content analysis, experiments, and surveys in particular, have defined the core of legitimate research, especially in the United States. 2 Although some scholars have produced qualitative work, and some of it has been very influential, most ...
... communication. Quantitative research methods generally, and content analysis, experiments, and surveys in particular, have defined the core of legitimate research, especially in the United States. 2 Although some scholars have produced qualitative work, and some of it has been very influential, most ...
Journal of Communication 49(1)
... Because frames have to be considered schemes for both presenting and comprehending news, two concepts of framing can be specified: media frames and individual frames. This terminological and conceptual distinction follows the Kinder and Sanders (1990) suggestion that frames serve both as “devices em ...
... Because frames have to be considered schemes for both presenting and comprehending news, two concepts of framing can be specified: media frames and individual frames. This terminological and conceptual distinction follows the Kinder and Sanders (1990) suggestion that frames serve both as “devices em ...
1 - Homepages at Manchester
... “Campaign 2004: The Ads, the Internet, and the Issues.” Talk presented as part of the Convocation series, Manchester College, North Manchester, IN, September 2004. “Expectations vs. Elections in the 2004 Nomination Campaign.” Talk presented to the Annual Meeting of the Indiana Political Science Asso ...
... “Campaign 2004: The Ads, the Internet, and the Issues.” Talk presented as part of the Convocation series, Manchester College, North Manchester, IN, September 2004. “Expectations vs. Elections in the 2004 Nomination Campaign.” Talk presented to the Annual Meeting of the Indiana Political Science Asso ...
Political Socialization and Group
... 1997) presents elites with visible incentives to emphasize groups in policy debate. Discussing issues in terms of their policy beneficiaries facilitates citizen comprehension by providing them with a point of reference (Schneider and Ingram 1993). When considering policy designed to benefit (or even ...
... 1997) presents elites with visible incentives to emphasize groups in policy debate. Discussing issues in terms of their policy beneficiaries facilitates citizen comprehension by providing them with a point of reference (Schneider and Ingram 1993). When considering policy designed to benefit (or even ...
Penn List of Books - University of Pennsylvania
... news is constructed through a process based on an ecology of interests. Shared norms among journalists, elites & publics enable these diverse players to judge which voices should be included & excluded from news accounts. In an analysis of a broad spectrum of issues in the news, it is shown that pub ...
... news is constructed through a process based on an ecology of interests. Shared norms among journalists, elites & publics enable these diverse players to judge which voices should be included & excluded from news accounts. In an analysis of a broad spectrum of issues in the news, it is shown that pub ...
Good governance and legitimacy
... of good government are essentially similar, whether in China or abroad, throughout the ages, and generally include the following key elements: good legal system, clean and honest officials, high administrative efficiency, and, good administrative services. There is no doubt, as long as government ex ...
... of good government are essentially similar, whether in China or abroad, throughout the ages, and generally include the following key elements: good legal system, clean and honest officials, high administrative efficiency, and, good administrative services. There is no doubt, as long as government ex ...
Framing the Soviet Athlete in American Media
... Sports and politics go hand-in-hand, mirroring each other in the ways they show the human character, institutional relations and the ideology behind those relations. By pitting team against team, as politics often does with political parties, countries or sets of allies, it ultimately gives sports a ...
... Sports and politics go hand-in-hand, mirroring each other in the ways they show the human character, institutional relations and the ideology behind those relations. By pitting team against team, as politics often does with political parties, countries or sets of allies, it ultimately gives sports a ...
July 1988 - Deep Blue - University of Michigan
... current commentators the political machines blocked the transmission of radicalism from society into politics. In both cases the conception of politics is society-centered, non-ideological, and functionalist. For reasons having to do primarily with its "middle range" theories, much of the "new" hist ...
... current commentators the political machines blocked the transmission of radicalism from society into politics. In both cases the conception of politics is society-centered, non-ideological, and functionalist. For reasons having to do primarily with its "middle range" theories, much of the "new" hist ...
Popular Music as a Public Relations Resource in Political Campaigns
... songs, opting instead for ready-made popular songs that could be substituted in and out of the campaign as needed.9 As Jodi Larson argues, “After the 1980 campaign, no national candidate would use a campaign song that included a specific platform or even a reference to a candidate’s individual ident ...
... songs, opting instead for ready-made popular songs that could be substituted in and out of the campaign as needed.9 As Jodi Larson argues, “After the 1980 campaign, no national candidate would use a campaign song that included a specific platform or even a reference to a candidate’s individual ident ...
Annex 7: Media plurality and news - a summary of
... result of the increased prominence of topics, citizens are more likely to form an opinion. However, he argues that the media agenda “alone does not determine the public agenda” [p.8], as citizens must perceive stories to be relevant. Relevance to the situation, and the degree to which an individual ...
... result of the increased prominence of topics, citizens are more likely to form an opinion. However, he argues that the media agenda “alone does not determine the public agenda” [p.8], as citizens must perceive stories to be relevant. Relevance to the situation, and the degree to which an individual ...
Realism in Normative Political Theory
... yet less radical claim that politics cannot be exhausted by morality and that key political concepts such as legitimacy and authority need to be rethought in conditions of ineradicable moral and political disagreement (Philp 2012; Philp 2007). This position has often been supplemented with some mor ...
... yet less radical claim that politics cannot be exhausted by morality and that key political concepts such as legitimacy and authority need to be rethought in conditions of ineradicable moral and political disagreement (Philp 2012; Philp 2007). This position has often been supplemented with some mor ...
Detailed Syllabus - Athabasca University
... 1. Describe the functions and roles that political parties play, and discuss the extent to which they organize political life. 2. Distinguish among one-party, two-party, and multi-party systems, and discuss their differences. 3. Compare and contrast the political parties in terms of membership, lead ...
... 1. Describe the functions and roles that political parties play, and discuss the extent to which they organize political life. 2. Distinguish among one-party, two-party, and multi-party systems, and discuss their differences. 3. Compare and contrast the political parties in terms of membership, lead ...
MEDIA MANAGEMENT * MCM 601
... issues. They then conducted a content analysis of nuclear energy coverage in the media outlets they had surveyed. They found that the opinions of sources who were cited as scientific experts reflected the antinuclear sentiments of journalists, rather than the more pro-nuclear perspectives held by mo ...
... issues. They then conducted a content analysis of nuclear energy coverage in the media outlets they had surveyed. They found that the opinions of sources who were cited as scientific experts reflected the antinuclear sentiments of journalists, rather than the more pro-nuclear perspectives held by mo ...