Media and Public Policy

ROBERT J. SPITZER is Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Cortland. He is the author of four books, including The Presidency and Public Policy, The Right to Life Movement and Third Party Politics (Greenwood Press, 1987), The Presidential Veto, and President and Congress, and editor of The Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. Spitzer has conducted research and published many articles on public policy subjects.

• Introduction: Defining the Media-Policy Link by Robert J. Spitzer Theoretical Perspectives Media Impact on the Political Status Quo--What is the Evidence? by Doris A. Graber Newsmaking and Policymaking: Steps Toward a Dialogue by Julio Borquez Media and Domestic Policy Impact of Commissioner Background on FCC Decisions , 1975-1990 by Wenmouth Williams, Jr. Bringing the Distant Close: Learning About South Africa From the News by Marion Just and Ann Crigler The Media, Economic Development, and Agenda Setting by Michael R. Hawthorne The Media, the Right to Privacy and Judicial Policy-Making: Rethinking Conceptual Foundations by Dean E. Alger Media Images as Environmental Policy by Jerry F. Medler and Michael J. Medler The Advertising Driven "New" Mass Media Election and the Rhetoric of Policy Issues: The 1990 Gantt-Helms Senate Race by Montague Kern Media and Comparative-Foreign Policy Dimensions Credentialing Experts: The Climate of Opinion and Journalist Selection of Sources in Domestic and Foreign Policy by Robert Sahr AIDS Reporting in the United States and Britain: What Reporters Know and What They Think the Public Knows by Holli A. Semetko and Edie N. Goldenberg Mass Media and U.S. Foreign Policy: A Mutual Exploitation Model of Media Influence in U.S. Foreign Policy by Patrick O'Heffernan Bibliography Index