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Tables of Contents for Agenda Setting
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
vii
Steven H. Chaffee
Preface
ix
What Is Agenda-Setting?
1
23
Agenda-Setting as a Political Process
1
4
The Media Agenda, Public Agenda, and Policy Agenda
5
2
The Chapel Hill Study
6
1
Salience as the Key in Agenda-Setting
7
1
History of Agenda-Setting Research
8
5
The Search for Media Effects
13
3
Three Research Traditions
16
1
Measuring Agendas
17
2
The Rise and Fall of the War on Drugs
19
3
Summary
22
1
Notes
23
1
Media Agenda Studies
24
16
Media Advocacy for Drunk Driving
25
3
Real-World Indicators and the Media Agenda
28
3
AIDS and the Media Agenda in San Francisco
30
1
Influencing the Media Agenda
31
2
Similarity of Media Coverage of an Issue
33
2
Measuring the Media Agenda
35
4
The Exxon Valdez and the Environment
37
2
Summary
39
1
Notes
40
1
Public Agenda Studies: The Hierarchy Approach
40
14
The Issues of the 1960s
41
4
Measuring the Public Agenda
45
4
Evidence for the Influence of the Media Agenda on the Public Agenda
49
1
Intervening Variables in Predicting the Public Agenda
50
2
The Role of Personal Experience With Issues
52
1
Summary
53
1
Notes
53
1
Public Agenda Studies: Longitudinal Approaches
54
18
The Issue of AIDS in the United States
56
4
The Issue-Attention Cycle
60
2
How an Issue Gets on the Public Agenda
62
1
Experimental Research
62
4
A Threshold in Public Attention
64
2
Issue Displacement as a Zero-Sum Game
66
1
Time in Agenda-Setting Research
67
4
How the Ethiopian Famine Got on the Agenda
69
2
Summary
71
1
Notes
71
1
Policy Agenda Studies
72
16
The Media-Policy Relationship
74
4
Media Coverage and Decision Making in Washington
76
2
From the Issue of Power to the Power of Issues
78
3
Investigative Reporting and Policy Making in Chicago
79
2
Studying the Policy Agenda
81
6
Setting the Agenda in the U.S. Senate
84
3
Summary
87
1
Notes
87
1
Studying the Agenda-Setting Process
88
13
Comparisons Among Agenda-Setting Approaches
89
1
Generalizations About Agenda-Setting
90
2
Toward Disaggregation in Agenda-Setting Research
92
3
Research Questions for Future Study
95
4
The Need for Multimethod Research Designs
99
1
Agenda-Setting in Democratic Societies
99
2
References
101
8
Suggested Readings
109
20
Author Index
129
4
Subject Index
133
6
About the Authors
139