The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media

<br>Robert Y. Shapiro (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1982) is a professor and former chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, and he served as acting director of Columbia's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy during 2008-2009. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was a 2006-2007 Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. He specializes in American politics with research and teaching interests in public opinion, policymaking, political leadership, the mass media, and applications of statistical methods. He has taught at Columbia since 1982 after receiving his degree and serving as a study director at the National Opinion Research Center (University of Chicago). <br>Lawrence R. Jacobs has published 11 books and dozens of articles on elections, legislative and presidential politics, elections and public opinion, and a range of public policies including Health Care Reform and American Politics (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (with Robert Y. Shapiro, University of Chicago Press). Dr. Jacobs co-edits the "Chicago Series in American Politics" for the University of Chicago Press and has published dozens of scholarly articles. His research has been recognized by a number of prizes. He is the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute and the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota.<br>

PART I INTRODUCTION; 1. Informational Interdependence: Public Opinion and the Media in the New Communications Era; 2. TheInternet and Four Dimensions of Citizenship; 3. A Possible Next Frontier in Political Communication Research: Merging the Old with the New; PART II THE MEDIA; Foundations; 4. Tocqueville's Interesting Error: On Journalism and Democracy; 5. Partisans, Watchdog, and Entertainers: The Press for Democracy and Its Limits; 6. The News Industry; 7. What's Newsworthy: A View from the 21st Century; 8. Soft News and The Four Oprah Effects; Measurement and Method; 9. Exposure Measures and Content Analysis in Media Effects Studies; 10. The Future of Political Communication Research: Online Panels and Experimentation; Effects; 11. Public-Elite Interactions: Puzzles in Search of Researchers; 12. Issue Framing; 13. Campaigning, Debating, Advertising; 14. Media Influences on Political Trust and Engagement; 15. The Effect of Media on Public Knowledge; 16. News Polls: Constructing an Engaged Public; PART III PUBLIC OPINION; Foundations; 17. Democracy and the Concept of Public Opinion; 18. Constructing Public Opinion: A Brief History of Survey Research; 19. Critical Perspectives on Public Opinion; Measurement; 20. The Accuracy of Opinion Polling and Its Relation to Its Future; 21. Representative Sampling and Survey Non-Response; 22. Instrument Design: Question Form, Wording and Context Effects; Micro-Level Frameworks; 23. Political Cognition and Public Opinion; 24. Emotion and Public Opinion; 25. Prospect Theory and Risk Assessment; 26. Connecting the Social and Biological Bases of Public Opinion; 27. Attitude Organization in the Mass Public: The Impact of Ideology and Partisanship; The Pluralism of Public Opinion; 28. Political Socialization: Ongoing Questions and New Directions; 29. On the Complex and Varied Political Effects of Gender; 30. The Contours of Black Public Opinion; 31. Latino Public Opinion; 32. Asian American Public Opinion; 33. A Vine with Many Branches: Religion and Public Opinion Research (; 34. Class Differences in Social and Political Attitudes in the United States; 35. Knowledge, Sophistication, and Issue Publics; PART IV ISSUES AND POLITICS; 36. Public Opinion, the Media, and Economic Well-Being; 37. Race, Public Opinion, the Media; 38. Public Opinion, the Media, and Social Issues; 39. Big Government and Public Opinion; Foreign Policy and Security; 40. Public Opinion, Foreign Policy and the Media: Toward an Integrative Theory; 41. Public Opinion, the Media, and War; 42. The Media, Public Opinion, and Terrorism; V. Democracy Under Stress; 43. The Democratic Paradox: The Waning of Popular Sovereignty and the Pathologies of American Politics; Index