Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ533330
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1996
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Toward the Integrated Study of Political Communications, Public Opinion, and the Policy-making Process.
Jacobs, Lawrence R.; Shapiro, Robert Y.
PS: Political Science and Politics, v29 n1 p10-13 Mar 1996
Maintains that the dynamics of public policy decisions, political power, mass media coverage, and public opinion have become so interconnected that it demands a new field of integrated study. Argues that the absence of this study leads to either overrating or undervaluing the mass media effect on politics. (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Civics, Higher Education, Information Dissemination, Intellectual Disciplines, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Role, Media Research, Policy Analysis, Political Influences, Political Issues, Political Power, Political Science, Public Affairs Education, Public Opinion, Public Policy, Social Science Research
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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