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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      28 November 1998
      ISBN:
      9781139175074
      9780521637268
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139175074
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      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.543kg, 356 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Politics: General Interest, American Studies, American Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Psychology: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Politics: General Interest, American Studies, American Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Psychology: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
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    People's perceptions of the attitudes and experiences of mass collectives are an increasingly important force in contemporary political life. In Impersonal Influence, Mutz goes beyond simply providing examples of how impersonal influence matters in the political process to provide a micro-level understanding of why information about distant and impersonal others often influence people's political attitudes and behaviors. Impersonal Influence is worthy of attention both from the standpoint of its impact on contemporary politics, and because of its potential to expand the boundaries of our understanding of social influence processes, and media's relation to them. The book's conclusions do not exonerate media from the effects of inaccurate portrayals of collective experience or opinion, but they suggest that the ways in which people are influenced by these perceptions are in themselves, not so much deleterious to democracy as absolutely necessary to promoting accountability in a large scale society.

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    Contents

    Contents
    • Frontmatter
      pp i-viii
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    • Contents
      pp ix-x
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    • List of Figures
      pp xi-xii
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    • List of Tables
      pp xiii-xiv
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    • Preface
      pp xv-xviii
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    • Acknowledgments
      pp xix-xx
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    • Part I - Theory and Historical Context
      pp 1-2
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    • 1 - The Generalized Other: Social Influence in Contemporary American Politics
      pp 3-25
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    • 2 - Beyond Personal Influence: The Rise of Impersonal Associations
      pp 26-61
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    • 3 - The Origins of Perceptions of Mass Collectives: Mass Media's Role
      pp 62-96
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    • Part II - Effects of Perceptions of Mass Experience
      pp 97-98
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    • 4 - The Politicization of Personal and Collective Experience
      pp 99-145
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    • 5 - Connecting the Personal and the Political: Media as Facilitator or Inhibitor?
      pp 146-176
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    • Part III - Effects of Perceptions of Mass Opinion
      pp 177-178
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    • 6 - When Does Success Succeed? A Review of the Evidence
      pp 179-196
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    • 7 - The Social Psychology of Impersonal Influence from Collective Opinion
      pp 197-217
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    • 8 - The Role of Collective Opinion in Individual Judgment: Processes and Effects
      pp 218-264
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    • Part IV - Conclusion
      pp 265-266
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    • 9 - Impersonal Influence and the Mass Society Tradition
      pp 267-296
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    • Appendix: Methodology
      pp 297-300
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    • References
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    • Index
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