Can the Electoral Process be Improved?

L. Sandy Maisel, Darrell M. West, Brett M. Clifton

For a number of years, voters and academic observers have been dissatisfied with American campaigns. Contemporary races are seen as ...

How to Improve Local News and Win Ratings, Too

Tom Rosenstiel, Marion Just, Todd Belt, Atiba Pertilla, Walter Dean, Dante Chinni

This book contradicts the conventional wisdom using empirical evidence drawn from a five-year content analysis of local news in more ...

How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections

Markus Prior

This volume considers how television and the Internet have changed politics in the United States over the last half-century. The ...

Why Ownership Matters

C. Edwin Baker

Unlike other books that merely point to the fact of media concentration, this book provides a normative critique of mass ...

Information Processing in Election Campaigns

Richard R. Lau, David P. Redlawsk

This book proposes a new framework for studying voter decision making. An innovative experimental methodology is presented for getting 'inside ...

Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy

Diana C. Mutz

"Religion and politics", as the old saying goes, "should never be discussed in mixed company." And yet fostering discussions that ...