Public policy and mass media:the interplay of mass communication and political decision making

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Group Author: Koch-Baumgarten Sigrid, 1955-; Voltmer Katrin.
Published: Routledge/ECPR,
Publisher Address: London New York
Publication Dates: 2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ; 66
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Carrier Form: xvii, 233 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780415485463 (cloth : alk. paper)
0415485460 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780203858493 (ebook)
0203858492 (ebook)
Index Number: D0
CLC: D0
G206.3-05
Call Number: G206.3-05/P976-1
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: understanding the media policy link / Sigrid Koch-Baumgarten and Katrin Voltmer -- Policy issues, agenda and the media. Public policy and the mass media: an information processing approach / Bryan D. Jones and Michelle Wolfe -- Do the media shape parties' agenda preferences? an empirical study of party manifestoes in Belgium (1987-2003) / Stefaan Walgrave and Jonas Lefevere -- Closing the circle: a case study in the role of spin in the policy cycle / Neil Gavin -- Knowledge culture and power: biotechnolocy and the popular press / Pieter Maeseele and Dimitri Schuurrman -- Aid organizations, governments and the media: the critical role of journalists in signaling authority recognition / Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt -- Policy institutions, constellations of actors and the media. The media and the policy process: a policy centric approach / Robin Brown -- Contested processes, contested influence: a case study of genetically modified food in Britain / Anita Howarth -- Going public? (re)presentation of women's policy in the media / Birgit Sauer -- Public pushing for pension reform? the short-term impact of media coverage on long-term policy making in Germany, Britain and the United States / Christoph Strünck -- Condemned to repeat: the media and the accountability gap in Iraq War policy / Robert M. Entman, Steven Livingston and Sean Aday -- Conclusion: the interplay of mass communication and the interplay of mass communication and political decision making-policy matters / Sigrid Koch-Baumgarten and Katrin Voltmerx.