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Specifically written for researchers and students with a fundamental knowledge of focus
group research, the book gives numerous examples of what researchers should and should …

With all new and expanded chapters, the third edition provides an in-depth look at how
terrorists exploit mass media to get attention, spread fear and anxiety among the targets of …

Whether at parties, around the dinner table, or at the office, people talk about politics all the
time. Yet while such conversations are a common part of everyday life, political scientists …

Throughout the world, truth commissions have been (and are being) constructed under the
hope that discovering the 'truth'about a country's past conflicts will somehow contribute to …

Deliberative democracy can be defined as a political system based on citizens' free
discussion of public issues. While most scholars have discussed deliberative democracy …

This study investigated biased message processing of political satire in The Colbert Report
and the influence of political ideology on perceptions of Stephen Colbert. Results indicate …

How often do we hear that Americans are so ignorant about politics that their civic
competence is impaired, and that the media are to blame because they do a dismal job of …

For the past three decades and now into a fourth, the agenda-setting function of mass
media, first explored empirically in the United States in 1968 by McCombs and Shaw (1972) …

For some theorists, talk about politics is infrequent, difficult, divisive, and, to be efficacious,
must proceed according to special rules in protected spaces. We, however, examined …