Processing Politics

Author : Doris A. Graber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226924769
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Processing Politics written by Doris A. Graber and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How often do we hear that Americans are so ignorant about politics that their civic competence is impaired, and that the media are to blame because they do a dismal job of informing the public? Processing Politics shows that average Americans are far smarter than the critics believe. Integrating a broad range of current research on how people learn (from political science, social psychology, communication, physiology, and artificial intelligence), Doris Graber shows that televised presentations—at their best—actually excel at transmitting information and facilitating learning. She critiques current political offerings in terms of their compatibility with our learning capacities and interests, and she considers the obstacles, both economic and political, that affect the content we receive on the air, on cable, or on the Internet. More and more people rely on information from television and the Internet to make important decisions. Processing Politics offers a sound, well-researched defense of these remarkably versatile media, and challenges us to make them work for us in our democracy.

Author : D. Redlawsk
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403983119
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feeling Politics written by D. Redlawsk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-06-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the study of emotions and politics, this book explores connections between affect and cognition and their implications for political evaluation, decision and action. Emphasizing theory, methodology and empirical research, Feeling Politics is an important contribution to political science, sociology, psychology and communications.

Author : Milton Lodge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107067057
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rationalizing Voter written by Milton Lodge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political behavior is the result of innumerable unnoticed forces and conscious deliberation is often a rationalization of automatically triggered feelings and thoughts. Citizens are very sensitive to environmental contextual factors such as the title 'President' preceding 'Obama' in a newspaper headline, upbeat music or patriotic symbols accompanying a campaign ad, or question wording and order in a survey, all of which have their greatest influence when citizens are unaware. This book develops and tests a dual-process theory of political beliefs, attitudes and behavior, claiming that all thinking, feeling, reasoning and doing have an automatic component as well as a conscious deliberative component. The authors are especially interested in the impact of automatic feelings on political judgments and evaluations. This research is based on laboratory experiments, which allow the testing of five basic hypotheses: hot cognition, automaticity, affect transfer, affect contagion and motivated reasoning.

Author : Doug McAdam
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226555550
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency written by Doug McAdam and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic work of sociology, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States. Moving from theoretical concerns to empirical analysis, he focuses on the crucial role of three institutions that foster protest: black churches, black colleges, and Southern chapters of the NAACP. He concludes that political opportunities, a heightened sense of political efficacy, and the development of these three institutions played a central role in shaping the civil rights movement. In his new introduction, McAdam revisits the civil rights struggle in light of recent scholarship on social movement origins and collective action. "[A] first-rate analytical demonstration that the civil rights movement was the culmination of a long process of building institutions in the black community."—Raymond Wolters, Journal of American History "A fresh, rich, and dynamic model to explain the rise and decline of the black insurgency movement in the United States."—James W. Lamare, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Author : Richard R. Lau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139456865
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Voters Decide written by Richard R. Lau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-26 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to redirect the field of voting behavior research by proposing a paradigm-shifting framework for studying voter decision making. An innovative experimental methodology is presented for getting 'inside the heads' of citizens as they confront the overwhelming rush of information from modern presidential election campaigns. Four broad theoretically-defined types of decision strategies that voters employ to help decide which candidate to support are described and operationally-defined. Individual and campaign-related factors that lead voters to adopt one or another of these strategies are examined. Most importantly, this research proposes a new normative focus for the scientific study of voting behavior: we should care about not just which candidate received the most votes, but also how many citizens voted correctly - that is, in accordance with their own fully-informed preferences.

Author : P. Eric Louw
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761940845
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Media and Political Process written by P. Eric Louw and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-05-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Media and Political Process examines the increasingly topical subject of the political process and assesses: The nature of the relationship between mass media and the political process The impact of media-ization on existing political frameworks The implications of media-ized politics Eric Louw uses a number of case-studies including political, celebrity, war and terrorism to provide a media studies perspective on how media workers (journalists, public affairs officers, spin-doctors) impact upon the political process. The book also considers the media's role in promoting a range of twentieth century ideologies and emerging dominant discourses.

Author : Donald F. Kettl
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1506357105
Total Pages : 871 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics of the Administrative Process written by Donald F. Kettl and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics of the Administrative Process shows how efficient public administration requires a delicate balance—the bureaucracy must be powerful enough to be effective, but also accountable to elected officials and citizens. Author Don Kettl gives students a realistic, relevant, and well-researched view of the field in this reader–friendly best seller. With its engaging vignettes, rich examples and a unique focus on policymaking and politics, the Seventh Edition continues its strong emphasis on politics, accountability, and performance. This new edition has been thoroughly updated with new scholarship, data, events, and case studies, giving students multiple opportunities to apply ideas and analysis as they read.

Author : Glenn W. Richardson Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440839514
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Media and Politics written by Glenn W. Richardson Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set explores the various ways social media are profoundly changing politics in America. The last decade has seen dramatic changes in the U.S. political process. The advent of social media and other new forms of expression have enabled an unprecedented number of citizens to enter the political arena by expressing their opinions about issues and candidates in ways that can influence untold numbers of voters and officials. But the vast majority of politicians have not fully grasped how social media has fundamentally changed the process of communication or adjusted to the dramatic shift in political power that is taking place. Written by experts on the intersections of politics, public opinion, and popular culture, this book examines how new media have brought political "power to the people" like never before, provided new channels through which politicians communicate and attempt to influence public opinion, and caused a game-changing shift in political power. Volume one focuses on how savvy politicians are learning to communicate in new ways via new media in order to enhance their political appeal. The second volume examines the various ways in which individuals or groups who use new/social media are affecting voters' decisions, applying pressure to elected or appointed officials, and influencing the direction of the country.

Author : P. Zittoun
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113734766X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Process of Policymaking written by P. Zittoun and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philippe Zittoun analyses the public policymaking process focusing on how governments relentlessly develop proposals to change public policy to address insoluble problems. Rather than considering this surprising Sisyphean effort as a lack of rationality, the author examines it as a political activity that produces order and stability.

Author : Morton A. Kaplan
Publisher : ECPR Press
ISBN 13 : 0954796624
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book System and Process in International Politics written by Morton A. Kaplan and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: System and Process (1957) broke the mould in political science by combining systems, game, and cybernetic concepts in its theoretical formulations. Since its publication, serious research in international relations has needed to respond to the bold hypotheses that matched equilibrial rules with type of system. Kaplan's life-long interest in finding an objective basis for moral judgments had its scholarly origins in an appendix of this classical book, which incorporated his understanding of philosophy and, in particular, the philosophy of science. A second appendix on 'The Mechanisms of Regulation' explored the cybernetic and recursive nature of knowing.