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"This second edition of the book, Televised Presidential Debates and Public Policy provides a comprehensive update on the research, production, and effects of general election debates between major presidential candidates in 1960 and 1976 through 1996. Using participant-observation on site at the debates, and interviews and other research methodologies, Kraus discusses how debate formats came about, the actions of candidate advisors (including the "spin"), media coverage of the debates, polling, and their impact on voters."--Jacket

The work is based on a two-year analytic review of the literature followed by a one-year synthesis of the findings. The one-year synthesis of the findings. The result, in the words of a pre-publication reviewer, "is an attempt to redirect research in this whole area by examining the demonstrated utility of various approaches, urging that we discard some and adopt others as promising." The Effects of Mass Communication on Political Behavior will be indispensable for all students of communication, political behavior, speech, journalism, political sociology, and social psychology.

This collection of original, state-of-the-art research on the cognitive psychology of political communication addresses the central question of how individuals process political information. Using a model developed by the editors, political information processing is examined in several stages: (1) voters' ability to process political information; (2) voters' motivation to process such information; (3) the effects of political messages; and (4) the impact of these processes and effects on the polity. The contributors' approaches to the investigation of information processing represent a broad spectrum of methodologies and disciplinary perspectives; ranging from the macrosociological to microcognitive to affective. All reflect the central beliefs that voters play an active role in the construction of political reality and that cognitive processes do help explain why communication has certain types of effects and why they minimize media influence.

Studies the most significant American labor conflict of the 20th century

Rosenfeld suggests that more than any other component of Roth's varied fiction, his skillful portrayals of uprootedness and the search for home explain his international appeal, which has grown in recent decades with the translation of his novels into English."--BOOK JACKET.