Citizens Politics And Social Communication

Author : R. Robert Huckfeldt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521452988
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizens, Politics and Social Communication written by R. Robert Huckfeldt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democratic politics is a collective enterprise, not simply because individual votes are counted to determine winners, but more fundamentally because the individual exercise of citizenship is an interdependent undertaking. Citizens argue with one another and they generally arrive at political decisions through processes of social interaction and deliberation. This book is dedicated to investigating the political implications of interdependent citizens within the context of the 1984 presidential campaign as it was experienced in the metropolitan area of South Bend, Indiana. Hence this is a community study in the fullest sense of the term. National politics is experienced locally through a series of filters unique to a particular setting and its consequences for the exercise of democratic citizenship.

Author : Robert Huckfeldt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizens, politics and social communications written by Robert Huckfeldt and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Dahlgren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521821010
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media and Political Engagement written by Peter Dahlgren and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the media's role in shaping civic engagement and enhancing political engagement.

Author : Andrew Calabrese
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847691081
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy written by Andrew Calabrese and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What roles can and should governments play in communication policymaking? How are communication policies related to welfare politics? With the rapid globalization of commerce and culture and the increasing recognition of information as an economic resource, the grounds for defending the welfare state have shifted. Communication policy is now more widely understood as social policy. Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy examines issues of communication technology, neoliberal economic policies, public service media, media access, social movements and political communication, the geography of communication, and global media development and policy, among others, and shows how progressive policymakers must use these bases to confront more directly the debates on contemporary welfare theory and politics.

Author : Robert Huckfeldt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521542234
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Disagreement written by Robert Huckfeldt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political disagreement is widespread within the communication network of ordinary citizens; furthermore, political diversity within these networks is entirely consistent with a theory of democratic politics built on the importance of individual interdependence. The persistence of political diversity and disagreement does not imply that political interdependence is absent among citizens or that political influence is lacking. The book's analysis makes a number of contributions. The authors demonstrate the ubiquitous nature of political disagreement. They show that communication and influence within dyads is autoregressive - that the consequences of dyadic interactions depend on the distribution of opinions within larger networks of communication. They argue that the autoregressive nature of political influence serves to sustain disagreement within patterns of social interaction, as it restores the broader political relevance of social communication and influence. They eliminate the deterministic implications that have typically been connected to theories of democratic politics based on interdependent citizens.

Author : Betsy Sinclair
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226922839
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Citizen written by Betsy Sinclair and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings are social animals. Yet despite vast amounts of research into political decision making, very little attention has been devoted to its social dimensions. In political science, social relationships are generally thought of as mere sources of information, rather than active influences on one’s political decisions. Drawing upon data from settings as diverse as South Los Angeles and Chicago’s wealthy North Shore, Betsy Sinclair shows that social networks do not merely inform citizen’s behavior, they can—and do—have the power to change it. From the decision to donate money to a campaign or vote for a particular candidate to declaring oneself a Democrat or Republican, basic political acts are surprisingly subject to social pressures. When members of a social network express a particular political opinion or belief, Sinclair shows, others notice and conform, particularly if their conformity is likely to be highly visible. We are not just social animals, but social citizens whose political choices are significantly shaped by peer influence. The Social Citizen has important implications for our concept of democratic participation and will force political scientists to revise their notion of voters as socially isolated decision makers.

Author : Sean Richey
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739188577
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen written by Sean Richey and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social networking fascinates scholars, pundits, and a billion Facebook users; this book shows that whom we know has a vast impact on our political beliefs, actions, and abilities. Prior scholarship has shown that networks are crucial to explaining everything from how bills get through Congress, why people vote, how NGO’s become successful in developing nations, and much more. Yet an in-depth analysis of the social basis of the rationality is missing. To fill this void, The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen provides the first empirical analysis of the most important hypothesized effect of social network influence on politics: social cognition. Through new lab experiments and survey data, this book shows that decision-making in groups promotes more rational choices and better citizenship. Thus, advice and learning derived from social network contacts are shown to be the basis of decision-making for the rational citizen.

Author : Alex Frame
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317388542
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizen Participation and Political Communication in a Digital World written by Alex Frame and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arrival of the participatory web 2.0 has been hailed by many as a media revolution, bringing with it new tools and possibilities for direct political action. Through specialised online platforms, mainstream social media or blogs, citizens in many countries are increasingly seeking to have their voices heard online, whether it is to lobby, to support or to complain about their elected representatives. Politicians, too, are adopting "new media" in specific ways, though they are often criticised for failing to seize the full potential of online tools to enter into dialogue with their electorates. Bringing together perspectives from around the world, this volume examines emerging forms of citizen participation in the face of the evolving logics of political communication, and provides a unique and original focus on the gap which exists between political uses of digital media by the politicians and by the people they represent.

Author : Andrew Chadwick
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Internet Politics written by Andrew Chadwick and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an overview of Internet politics, this work examines the impact of communication technologies on political parties and elections, pressure groups, social movements, public bureaucracies, and global governance.

Author : Dan F. Hahn
Publisher : Strata Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Communication written by Dan F. Hahn and published by Strata Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: