Bringing together well-established scholars of media, political science, sociology, and film to investigate the representation of Washington politics on U.S. te

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Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtrusively alter

In this completely revised and updated edition (including eight new chapters), Jeffrey Jones charts the evolution and maturation of political entertainment tele

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