News that matters : television and American opinion /
Shanto Iyengar & Donald R. Kinder.
- Updated ed.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- x, 202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Chicago studies in American politics .
- Chicago studies in American politics. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A primordial power? -- Pathways to knowledge: experimentation and the analysis of television's power -- The agenda-setting effect -- Vivid cases and lead stories -- Personal predicaments and national problems -- Victims of agenda-setting -- The priming effect -- Priming and presidential character -- Priming and presidential responsibility -- Victims of priming -- Electoral consequences of priming -- News that matters.
Television broadcasting of news--Political aspects--United States. Television broadcasting of news--Psychological aspects.--United States Television and politics--United States. Public opinion--United States.