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OverviewWhy do public issues like the environment rise and fall in importance over time? To what extent can the trends in salience be explained by real-world factors? To what degree are they the product of interactions between media content, public opinion, and policy-making? This book surveys the development of eight issues in Canada over a decade - AIDS, crime, debt/deficit, the environment, inflation, national unity, taxes, and unemployment - to explore why information about certain issues and not others is made available to the public in a democracy. Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada offers one of the first empirical analyses of the interaction of the media, the public, and policy-makers in Canada and, more generally, makes a contribution to the study of political communications and policy-making that are important well beyond the Canadian context. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stuart N. SorokaPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Edition: illustrated edition Weight: 0.380kg ISBN: 9780774809580ISBN 10: 0774809582 Pages: 168 Publication Date: 10 September 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsTables and Figures Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Issues and Issue Types 3 The Media Agenda 4 The Public Agenda 5 The Policy Agenda 6 Modelling Agenda-Setting 7 Expanding the Models 8 Final Conclusions Appendices A Time Series Methods and Agenda-Setting B The Media Agenda C The Public Agenda D The Policy Agenda E Real-World Indicators References IndexReviewsIn the vast literature on agenda setting, this book is destined to become one of the top five publications. It will be a must read for anyone involved in this line of research, or for general readers interested in the formation of public opinion and public policy. - Maxwell McCombs, Jesse H. Jones Centennial Chair in Communication, University of Texas at Austin In the vast literature on agenda setting, this book is destined to become one of the top five publications. It will be a must read for anyone involved in this line of research, or for general readers interested in the formation of public opinion and public policy. -- Maxwell McCombs, Jesse H. Jones Centennial Chair in Communication, University of Texas at Austin Soroka has produced by far the most detailed and sophisticated study to date of Canadian agenda setting ... his clear and concise discussion of the problematics and methods of studying agenda-setting has provided a significant contribution to the literature on the subject. -- Michael Howlett, Professor of Political Science, Simon Fraser University Political Communication, 20, 343-344, 2003 Soroka has produced by far the most detailed and sophisticated study to date of Canadian agenda setting... his clear and concise discussion of the problematics and methods of studying agenda-setting has provided a significant contribution to the literature on the subject. [T]his concise and well-written book could certainly prove useful to scholars interested in agenda-setting, public opinion and policy studies ... this book may convince even the most skeptical students of politics to take agenda-setting seriously. Rating: ***** -- Daniel Beland, University of Calgary Political Studies Review, 1:3 ""In the vast literature on agenda setting, this book is destined to become one of the top five publications. It will be a ""must read"" for anyone involved in this line of research, or for general readers interested in the formation of public opinion and public policy."" - Maxwell McCombs, Jesse H. Jones Centennial Chair in Communication, University of Texas at Austin Author InformationStuart Soroka is assistant professor of politicalscience at McGill University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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