Strategy, at its best, knits together ends and means, no matter how various and disparate,
into a cohesive pattern. In the case of a US information strategy, this requires balancing the …

Previous explanations of mass participation have often focused on sociodemographic
characteristics to the neglect of social psychological factors. This study takes a new path in …

This ethnographic study brings together theories of civil society and race scholarship, to ask
how people talk about race in conversations that are not exclusively devoted to talking about …

The theory of media events developed by Dayan and Katz is extended in an analysis of
Franklin Roosevelt's first eight fireside chats. Roosevelt's fireside chats were structured in …

This study examines how the American electorate has been described by political
campaigners between 1948 and 1996. Using a database of some five hundred speeches …

Kan vi vara säkra på att demokratin verkligen är en så självklar sak, att dess framtidsväg här
i landet är så klart markerad som många gärna vill tro. Jag tror att man måste tänka litet mera …

The past decade has witnessed fundamental changes in the American mass media
environment. Contemporary media technologies and format innovations have created new …

This dissertation examines the uses and meanings of reading in the nineteenth-century
American South. In a region where social relations were largely defined by slavery and its …

Op 2 april 1831 vertrekt de 26-jarige Franse edelman Alexis de Tocqueville vanuit Le Havre
voor een studiereis van tien maanden naar de Verenigde Staten. Net zoals Montesquieu …

Sensational televised advertisements have become the principal tool of politicians in trying
to convince voters to elect them president, governor, senator, and often congressional …