Partisan cues and the media : information flows in the 1992 presidential election
By: DALTON, Russell J
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Contributor(s): BECK, Paul A | HUCKFELDT, Robert.
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ArticlePublisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, March 1998American Political Science Review 92, 1, p. 111-126Abstract: Most of what voters learn about the political process and contemporary events is mediated through a variety of institutional and individual information sources. Most people have not met their elected representatives, attended a government hearing, or read the legislative proposals under consideration by Congress. Nevertheless, people form impressions and evaluations of these actors and events through the information provided by intermediaries, such as the media, political organizations, and people with whom they discuss politics. The most regularly used information source, by virtually all accounts, is the mass media, especially television and the press.
Most of what voters learn about the political process and contemporary events is mediated through a variety of institutional and individual information sources. Most people have not met their elected representatives, attended a government hearing, or read the legislative proposals under consideration by Congress. Nevertheless, people form impressions and evaluations of these actors and events through the information provided by intermediaries, such as the media, political organizations, and people with whom they discuss politics. The most regularly used information source, by virtually all accounts, is the mass media, especially television and the press.
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