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Tables of Contents for Communication and Democracy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Prologue: ``The Game is Afoot''
ix
PART I: THE PICTURES IN OUR HEADS
Filling in the Tapestry: The Second Level of Agenda Setting
3
12
Salma Ghanem
Exploring the Media's Roles in Defining Reality: From Issue-Agenda Setting to Attribute-Agenda Setting
15
14
Toshio Takeshita
The Press, Candidate Images, and Voter Perceptions
29
12
Pu-tsung King
Television and the Construction of Social Reality: An Israeli Case Study
41
10
Anat First
Agenda Setting and Priming: Conceptual Links and Differences
51
18
Lars Willnat
PART II: THE AGENDA-SETTING PROCESS
Susceptibility to Agenda Setting: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis of Individual Differences
69
16
Jian-Hua Zhu
William Boroson
Political Advertising's Influence on News, the Public and Their Behavior
85
12
Marilyn Roberts
Economic Headline News on the Agenda: New Approaches to Understanding Causes and Effects
97
18
Deborah J. Blood
Peter C. B. Phillips
A Brief History of Time: A Methodological Analysis of Agenda Setting
115
22
William J. Gonzenbach
Lee McGavin
The Messenger and the Message: Differences Across News Media
137
18
Wayne Wanta
PART III: NEWS AGENDAS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS
Media Agenda Setting and Press Performance: A Social System Approach for Building Theory
155
14
Dominic L. Lasorsa
An Agenda-Setting Perspective on Historical Public Opinion
169
14
Edward Caudill
Cultural Agendas: The Case of Latino-Oriented U. S. Media
183
12
America Rodriguez
Setting the Agenda for Cross-National Research: Bringing Values Into the Concept
195
14
Holli A. Semetko
Andreina Mandelli
Agendas for a Public Union or for Private Communities? How Individuals Are Using Media to Reshape American Society
209
22
Donald L. Shaw
Bradley J. Hamm
References
231
24
Contributors
255
4
Author Index
259
8
Subject Index
267