American Politics and Public Opinion

Department of Communication
Political Communication Lab

1998. Experimental research on racial stereotyping, Rockefeller Foundation.
1998. American Political Science Association (Political Communication Section), Lifetime Career Award.
1996. Experimental research on campaign advertising, Markle Foundation.
1996a. Experimental research on the effects of local television news, Ford Foundation. 1995. Race, violence and television news, National Science Foundation.
1994. The joint effects of advertising and news coverage in political campaigns, Markle Foundation.
1992. Television advertising and voter choice: the 1992 Senate campaigns in California, Markle Foundation.
1992a. Experimental studies of campaign advertising, National Science Foundation.
1990. Television advertising and voter choice, Markle Foundation.
1989. Framing effects in politics, Markle Foundation.
1986. Domain specificity in political knowledge, Board of Overseers, National Election Studies.
1985. Political understanding: how people explain politics, National Science Foundation.
1982. Experimental studies of media agenda-setting, National Science Foundation.
1981. Psychological processes in media agenda-setting, National Institutes of Health.
1980. An information-processing analysis of media agenda-setting, National Science Foundation.
1975. Political socialization in India, American Philosophical Society.
1973. The development of political attitudes among Indian children and adolescents,National Science Foundation.

Undergraduate Courses
Political Communication
Mass Media and Campaigns
American Government
Public Opinion
Research Methods

Graduate Courses
Media and Campaigns
Conduct of Social Science Research
Public Opinion
Political Psychology

Books

Do the Media Govern?  Reporters, Politicians and the American People  (co-edited with Richard Reeves), Sage Publications, 1997.

Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate (with Stephen Ansolabehere), Free Press, 1995.  [Winner of the 1995 Goldsmith Book Prize]

Explorations in Political Psychology (co-edited with William J. McGuire) Duke University Press, 1993.

The Media Game: American Politics in the Age of Television (with Stephen Ansolabehere and Roy Behr)  New York: MacMillan, 1992.

Is Anyone Responsible?:  How Television Frames Political Issues University of Chicago Press, 1991. (Paperback edition, 1994; Spanish edition, 1995)

News That Matters:  Television and American Opinion  (with Donald R. Kinder). University of Chicago Press, 1987.  [Excerpts reprinted in Joel Swerdlow (ed.), Media Technology and the Vote.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989.] 

Chapters

"The state of political communication research," in J. T. Spence (ed.), Annual Review of Psychology .  Annual Reviews Press, forthcoming. 

"Super-predators or wayward youth:  framing effects in crime news coverage", in N. Terkildsen and F. Schnell (eds.), The Dynamics of Issue Framing .  New York:  Cambridge University Press, forthcoming (with Franklin Gilliam).

"Who said what?  Source credibility as a mediator of campaign advertising," in Arthur Lupia, Mathew McCubbins, and Samuel Popkin (eds.), Elements of Reason , Cambridge University Press, forthcoming (with Nicholas Valentino). 

"To be or not to be? Campaigning as a woman," in Pippa Norris (ed.), Women, the Media and Politics .  Oxford University Press, 1996 (with Nicholas Valentino, Stephen Ansolabehere, and Adam Simon). 

"Perspectives on campaign communication," in Philo Washburn ed. Research in Political Sociology , Volume 7.  JAI Press, 1995 (with Adam Simon and Stephen Ansolabehere). 

"Campaigning through the media: was 1992 really different?," in Bryan Jones (ed.), The New American Politics .  Westview Press, 1995 (with Sharmaine Vidanage). 

"Winning through advertising; it's all in the context," in Candice Nelson and James Thurber (eds.),  Campaigns and Elections .  Westview Press, 1995 (with Stephen Ansolabehere). 

"The craft of political advertising," in Diana Mutz, Paul Sniderman and Richard Brody (eds.), Political Persuasion and Attitude Change . University of Michigan Press, 1995 (with Stephen Ansolabehere). 

"The cognitive perspective in political psychology," in Thomas Srull and Robert Wyer Jr. (eds.), Handbook of Social Cognition (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, N.J.:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994 (with Victor Otatti). 

"Agenda-setting and beyond:  television news and the strength of political issues," in William Riker (ed.), Agenda Formation .  Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Press, 1993. 

"Information and electoral attitudes:  a case of judgment under uncertainty" (with Stephen Ansolabehere), in Shanto Iyengar and William J. McGuire (eds.), Explorations in Political Psychology .  Durham:  Duke University Press, 1993. 

"Shortcuts to political knowledge:  selective attention and the accessibility bias," in John Ferejohn and James Kuklinski (eds.) Information and Democratic Processes .  Champaign:  University of Illinois Press, 1990. 

"Beyond 'minimal consequences':  a review of media political effects," in Samuel Long (ed.), Research in Micropolitics: Volume 3 . Boulder:  Westview Press, 1989 (with Silvo Lenart). 

"New directions for agenda-setting research," in James Anderson (ed.), Communication Yearbook: Volume 11 .  Beverly Hills:  Sage Publications, 1988. 

"More than meets the eye:  tv news, priming, and public evaluations of the president," in George Comstock (ed.), Public Communication and Behavior , Volume 1 (with Donald  R. Kinder).  New York: Academic Press, 1986. 

"Psychological accounts of media agenda-setting," in Sidney Kraus and Richard Perloff (eds.), Mass Media and Political Thought (with Donald R. Kinder).  Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1985. 
 

Papers

"Crime in black and white:  the violent, scary world of local news." Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics , 1996, 6-23 (with Frank Gilliam, Adam Simon, and Oliver Wright). 

"Framing responsibility for political issues."  Annals of the American Academy of  Political and Social Science , 1996, 59-70. 

"Can the press monitor campaign advertising?" Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics , 1996, 72-86 (with Stephen Ansolabehere). 

"Does negative advertising demobilize the electorate?," American Political Science Review , 1994, 829-38 (with Stephen Ansolabehere, Nick Valentino and Adam Simon). 

"Riding the wave and claiming ownership over issues:  the joint effects of advertising and news coverage in campaigns."  Public Opinion Quarterly , 1994, 335-357 (with Stephen Ansolabehere). 

"Of horseshoes and horseraces:  experimental studies of the impact of poll results on electoral behavior."  Political Communication , 1994, 413-429 (with Stephen Ansolabehere). 

"News coverage of the Gulf crisis and public opinion:  a survey of effects," Communication Research , 1993, 365-383 (with Adam Simon). 

"How television news affects voters:  from setting agendas to defining standards," Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy , 1992, 6, 33-48.

"Mass media and elections:  an overview," (with Stephen Ansolabehere and Roy Behr),  American Politics Quarterly , 1991, 19, 109-139. 

"The accessibility bias in politics:  television news and public opinion," International Journal of Public Opinion , 1990, 1-15. Reprinted in Stanley Rothman (ed.), Mass Media and Democratic Government. New York:  Paragon House Press, 1991. 

"Framing responsibility for political issues:  the case of poverty,"  Political Behavior , 1990, 19-40. 

"How citizens think about political issues:  a matter of responsibility,"  American Journal of Political Science, 1989, 878-900. Reprinted in Jeffrey Stonecash (ed.), American State and Local Politics .  N.Y.:  Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1994. 

"Television news and citizens' explanations of national issues," American PoliticalScience Review, 81, 1987, 815-32.  Reprinted in Doris Graber (ed.), Media Power in Politics .  Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1989. 

"Television news, real-world cues, and changes in the public agenda "(with Roy Behr), PublicOpinion Quarterly , 49, 1985, 38-57. 

"The evening news and presidential evaluations" (with Donald R. Kinder, Mark D. Peters and Jon Krosnick), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1984, 46, 778-787.  Reprinted in L. Anne Peplau, David O. Sears and Jonathan Freedman (eds.), Readings in Social Psychology: Classic and Contemporary Contributions .  Englewood-Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1986. 

"Experimental demonstrations of the `not-so-minimal' consequences of television newscasts" (with Mark D. Peters and Donald R. Kinder), American Political Science Review, 76. 1982, 848-858.  Reprinted in Maxwell McCombs (ed.), Agenda-Setting: Readings on Media, Public Opinion and Policy Making.  Hillsdale:  Lawrence Erlbaum, 1989. Charles Whitney (ed.), Mass Communication Review Yearbook. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1984.  Doris Graber (ed.), Media Power in Politics.  Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1984. David Sears and Anne Peplau (eds.), Readings in Social Psychology. Englewood Cliffs:  Prentice-Hall, 1985.  Neil Kressel (ed.), Political Psychology: Classic and Contemporary Readings.  New York:  Paragon House, 1993. Donald Kinder and Thomas Palfrey (eds.), Experimental Foundations of Political Science.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.  Richard Davis (ed.), Politics and the Media.  Englewood-Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1994. 

"Subjective political efficacy as a measure of diffuse support," Public Opinion Quarterly, 44, 1980, 249-256. 

"Trends in public support for Egypt and Israel, 1956-1978," (with Michael W.Suleiman), American Politics Quarterly, 8, 1980, 34-60. Reprinted in Michael W. Suleiman, Arabs in the Mind of America.  Brattleboro, Vt:  Amana Books, 1988. 

"Trust, efficacy and political reality:  a longitudinal analysis of Indian high school students," Comparative Politics, 13, 1980, 36-51. 

"Television news and issue salience:  a reexamination of the agenda-setting hypothesis,"   American Politics Quarterly, 7, 1979, 395-416. 

"Political knowledge among Indian children and adolescents:  an examination of the `mass ignorance' thesis," Social Science Quarterly, 60, 1979, 328-335.

"Learning about the population problem:  childhood attitudes toward family planning in India," Youth and Society, 10, 1979, 275-295. 

"Childhood political learning in a new nation: the impact of partisanship," Comparative Politics, 11, 1979, 205-223. 

"Testing the transfer of affect hypothesis in a new nation using panel data," American Journal of Political Science, 22, 1978, 905-916. 

"The development of political efficacy in a new nation: the case of Andhra Pradesh," Comparative Political Studies, 10, 1978, 337-354. 

"Children's partisan loyalties in a new nation,"  Public Opinion Quarterly, 42, 1978, 115-125. 

"Political agitation and childhood political learning: the case of Andhra Pradesh," Journal of the Developing Areas, 12, 1977, 3-16. 

"Learning to support the prime minister: political socialization in India," Comparative Political Studies, 9, 1977, 407-427. 

"Childhood learning of partisanship in a new nation: the case of Andhra Pradesh,"  American Journal of Political Science, 20, 1976, 407-423. 

"Assessing linguistic equivalence in multilingual surveys," Comparative Politics, 8, 1976,  577-589.  Reprinted in Donald P. Warwick and Martin Bulmer (eds.), Social Research in Developing Countries,  New York:  John Wiley, 1983, pp. 173-182. 

"The development of political agitators:  political socialization in an Indian state,"  Youth  and Society, 7, 1975, 27-48. 

"Magnifying relationships between attitudinal variables using panel analysis," Public Opinion Quarterly, 38, 1974, 90-97. 

"The problem of response stability:  some correlates and consequences," American Journal of Political Science, 17, 1973, 797-808.