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Hay infinitas definiciones de "opinión pública"; los autores que la investigaron lo hicieron desde distintas disciplinas e interpretaciones. Se analizan aquí visiones muy discímiles, tales como las de los fisiócratas, Rousseau, Guizot, Tocqueville, Mill, Germani, Marx, Habermas, Mannheim, Heller, etc.
Entre las temáticas analizadas, tenemos las siguientes: Factores que permitieron el surgimiento de la teoría de la opinión pública, Opinión...
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Life in America has become fractured-in public and private-across ever-widening fault lines of anger and incivility. The intensity of disagreement between Americans threatens the nation's well-being, presenting itself as disrespectful and distrusting in politics, culture, and conversations. Confusion, frustration, and hatred permeate politics, social media interactions, and cable news. The dysfunction and distrust also appear on the streets and at...
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This volume presents five studies on the relationship between the media and voters. Each examines some aspects of the flow of information to voters during election campaigns and all reflect the assumption that the right to vote must include the right of access and sufficient information to make an informed decision. In separate studies, Jean Crête and Robert MacDermid examine existing studies and data on the relationship between attention to media...
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The must-read summary of Evan Thomas's book: "A Long Time Coming: The Inspiring 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama".
This complete summary of "A Long Time Coming" by Evan Thomas, a bestselling American author and renowned political journalist, presents his experiences working within Obama's presidential campaign, with fascinating information about what really happens behind the closed doors of politics and how to run a memorable...
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From a certain perspective, the biggest political story of 2016 was how the candidate who bought three-quarters of the political ads lost to the one whose every provocative tweet set the agenda for the day's news coverage. With the arrival of Bot Farms, micro targeted Facebook ads, and Cambridge Analytica, isn't the age of political ads on local TV coming to a close?
You might think. But you'd be wrong to the tune of $4.4 billion just in 2016. In...
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One of the most significant and far-reaching events in U. S. history, the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 sharpened and brought to a head a number of crucial questions concerning slavery, states' rights, the legal status of blacks, and the effects of the Dred Scott decision. The debates were held as part of the campaign for the Illinois senatorial seat, pitting the two-term incumbent, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, against the lesser-known Abraham Lincoln,...
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It's a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate's every slip, gaffe, and peccadillo. This book explores political communication in American presidential politics, focusing on what insiders call "message."
Message, Michael Lempert and Michael Silverstein argue, is not simply an individual's positions on the issues but the...
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