Americans often complain about the operation of their government, but scholars have never
developed a complete picture of people's preferred type of government. In this provocative …

Can We Trust Social Capital? Page 1 Journal of Economic Literature Vol. XL (March 2002),
pp. 139–154 Sobel: Can We Trust Social Capital? Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XL (March …

We enter the 21st century contending with the end of the Cold War's legacy of political
uncertainty, expecting youth to play a significant part in the search for new principles that will …

This study examines whether readers of the paper and online versions of a national
newspaper acquire different perceptions of the importance of political issues. Using data …

This article reports causes and consequences of the mediatization of politics about activities
of the German parliament (Der Bundestag) and coverage of German politics in three …

The idea of interpersonal discussions among citizens being the “soul of democracy” has
been treatedalmost as a truism in recent research on media, interpersonal communication …

A decade ago, we contributed a chapter on political communication effects (McLeod,
Kosicki, & McLeod, 1994) to Bryant and Zillman's (1994) collection of essays on media …

Iconic photographs are widely recognized as representations of significant historical events,
activate strong emotional response, and are reproduced across a range of media, genres, or …

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When historians fight about Progressivism—and fight they do—they are not just arguing
about events of a century ago. They are also struggling over the basic meanings of …