Table of Contents

Part I Introduction
1: Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro: Informational Interdependence: Public Opinion and the Media in the New Communications Era
2: W. Russell Neuman, Bruce Bimber, and Matthew Hindman: TheInternet and Four Dimensions of Citizenship
3: Brian J. Gaines and James H. Kuklinski: A Possible Next Frontier in Political Communication Research: Merging the Old with the New
Part II The Media
Foundations
4: Michael Schudson: Tocqueville's Interesting Error: On Journalism and Democracy
5: Katherine Ann Brown and Todd Gitlin: Partisans, Watchdog, and Entertainers: The Press for Democracy and Its Limits
6: Doris A. Graber and Gregory G. Holyk: The News Industry
7: Marion R. Just: What's Newsworthy: A View from the 21st Century
8: Matthew A. Baum and Angela Jamison: Soft News and The Four Oprah Effects
Measurement and Method
9: Jennifer Jerit and Jason Barabas: Exposure Measures and Content Analysis in Media Effects Studies
10: Lynn Vavreck and Shanto Iyengar: The Future of Political Communication Research: Online Panels and Experimentation
Effects
11: James Druckman and Dennis Chong: Public-Elite Interactions: Puzzles in Search of Researchers
12: Thomas E. Nelson: Issue Framing
13: Bradford H. Bishop and D. Sunshine Hillygus: Campaigning, Debating, Advertising
14: Patricia Moy and Muzammil M. Hussain: Media Influences on Political Trust and Engagement
15: Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Bruce W. Hardy: The Effect of Media on Public Knowledge
16: W. Lance Bennett: News Polls: Constructing an Engaged Public
Part III Public Opinion
Foundations
17: John G. Gunnell: Democracy and the Concept of Public Opinion
18: Michael X. Delli Carpini: Constructing Public Opinion: A Brief History of Survey Research
19: Susan Herbst: Critical Perspectives on Public Opinion
Measurement
20: Michael Traugott: The Accuracy of Opinion Polling and Its Relation to Its Future
21: Adam J. Berinsky: Representative Sampling and Survey Non-Response
22: George Franklin Bishop: Instrument Design: Question Form, Wording and Context Effects
Micro-Level Frameworks
23: Charles S. Taber: Political Cognition and Public Opinion
24: Ted Brader, George E. Marcus, and Kristyn L. Miller: Emotion and Public Opinion
25: Rose McDermott: Prospect Theory and Risk Assessment
26: Carolyn L. Funk: Connecting the Social and Biological Bases of Public Opinion
27: William G. Jacoby: Attitude Organization in the Mass Public: The Impact of Ideology and Partisanship
The Pluralism of Public Opinion
28: Laura Stoker and Jackie Bass: Political Socialization: Ongoing Questions and New Directions
29: Leonie Huddy and Erin Cassese: On the Complex and Varied Political Effects of Gender
30: Frederick C. Harris: The Contours of Black Public Opinion
31: Rodolfo O. de la Garza and Seung-Jin Jang: Latino Public Opinion
32: Jane Junn, Taeku Lee, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Janelle Wong: Asian American Public Opinion
33: Aimee E. Barbeau, Carin Robinson, and Clyde Wilcox: A Vine with Many Branches: Religion and Public Opinion Research (
34: Leslie McCall and Jeff Manza: Class Differences in Social and Political Attitudes in the United States
35: Vincent Hutchings and Spencer Piston: Knowledge, Sophistication, and Issue Publics
Part IV Issues and Politics
36: Jason Barabas: Public Opinion, the Media, and Economic Well-Being
37: Taeku Lee and Nicole Willcoxon: Race, Public Opinion, the Media
38: Patrick J. Egan: Public Opinion, the Media, and Social Issues
39: Costas Panagopoulos and Robert Y. Shapiro: Big Government and Public Opinion
Foreign Policy and Security
40: Douglas D. Foyle: Public Opinion, Foreign Policy and the Media: Toward an Integrative Theory
41: John Mueller: Public Opinion, the Media, and War
42: Brigitte L. Nacos and Yaeli Bloch-Elkon: The Media, Public Opinion, and Terrorism
V. Democracy Under Stress
43: Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs: The Democratic Paradox: The Waning of Popular Sovereignty and the Pathologies of American Politics
Index

About the Author

Robert Y. Shapiro (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1982) is a professor and former chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, and he served as acting director of Columbia's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy during 2008-2009. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was a 2006-2007 Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. He specializes in American politics with research and
teaching interests in public opinion, policymaking, political leadership, the mass media, and applications of statistical methods. He has taught at Columbia since 1982 after receiving his degree and
serving as a study director at the National Opinion Research Center (University of Chicago). Lawrence R. Jacobs is the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute and the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. His Center is a preeminent hub for political and policy analysis in the Midwest. Dr. Jacobs has published 11 books and dozens of articles on
elections, legislative and presidential politics, elections and public opinion, and a range of public policies including Health Care Reform and American Politics (Oxford University Press, 2010) and
Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (with Robert Y. Shapiro, University of Chicago Press). Dr. Jacobs co-edits the "Chicago Series in American Politics " for the University of Chicago Press and has published dozens of scholarly articles. His research has been recognized by a number of prizes.

Reviews

Featuring an excellent mix of established and emerging scholars, the volume's 43 chapters deftly summarize past research and, in many cases, propose intriguing, insightful directions for future inquiry...this is an essential addition to any university reference collection.
*E.T. Jones, CHOICE*

The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a grandly ambitious undertaking. Success depends on coverage, scholarship, and editorial command. Measured by these standards, the Handbooks will be immensely valuable to the discipline. The right topics are analyzed by knowledgeable scholars and managed by experienced editors. A five-star project that will influence teaching and research for decades.
*Professor Charles O. Jones, University of Wisconsin-Madison*

A tremendously valuable resource for scholars and students alike. This Handbook offers thoughtful and sophisticated analyses of a rapidly changing media environment. In an age when mass media and interpersonal communication are blurring together, citizens serve not just as media consumers, but as producers, distributors, and commentators as well. This "informational interdependence" is examined here with subtlety and sophistication by the world's leading scholars of politics and media.
*Martin Gilens, Department of Politics, Princeton University*