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books:

Journal of Politics, November 1995 (Volume 57, Number 4)
John G. Gunnell, Arthur H. Miller, Vicki L. Hesli William M. Reisinger, ...

University of Texas Press, 1995

330 pp. Contents: Gunnell, "Realizing Theory: The Philosophy of Science Revisited"; Reisinger, Miller, Hesli, "Public Behavior and Political Change in Post-Soviet States"; Fackler and Lin, "Political Corruption and Presidential Elections, 1929-1992"; Gilens, "Racial Attitudes and Opposition to Welfare"; Mutz, Diana C., "Effects of Horse-Race Coverage on Campaign Coffers: Strategic Contributing in Presidential Primaries"; Mondak, "Competence, ...

Impersonal Influence: How Perceptions of Mass Collectives Affect Political Attitudes (Cambridge Studies in ...

1 review
Diana C. Mutz

Cambridge University Press, 1998

Very good work
Prof. Mutz is now probably one of the most well-known political communication scholars of the younger generation in the US. In this book, which consists of a number of research she had conducted in the past decade, she provided a very good discussion of the effects of how perception of public opinion can affect public opinion. Competing hypotheses are well discussed and research well designed to ...

Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy

2 reviews
Diana C. Mutz

Cambridge University Press, 2006

Why we're in this mess
Mutz explains very clearly how and why political conversation in this country is stilted, unsatisfying and so often leads to more misunderstanding. She explains that the goody-two-shoes vision of democracy -- where we would all understand one another if we just had all the facts and listened -- is a fantasy. It's an excellent combination of social psychology and political science. After reading ...

Political Persuasion and Attitude Change

University of Michigan Press, 1996

Political Persuasion and Attitude Change defines and introduces a new field of research, one that investigates the alteration of people's attitudes: when people can be moved, and when they cannot. Each chapter synopsizes a major area of political persuasion and provides an update on the latest findings as well as overviews of past research in each area. Whole sections of the book center on the three major agents involved in the political ...