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Toward the Integrated Study of Political Communications, Public Opinion, and the Policy-making Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Lawrence R. Jacobs
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Robert Y. Shapiro
Affiliation:
Columbia University

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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1996

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Footnotes

Jacobs and Shapiro are authors of numerous articles and several books and are recipients of an “Investigator Award” from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Their current project focuses on the interaction of public opinion, media coverage, and policy deliberations during the debate over health care reform in 1993 and 1994.

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