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Questions to the First Minister of Scotland.
(2003)
Political communication research traditionally has focussed on media coverage of politics. At the same time, a rhetorical perspective has informed most scholarship on the subject of direct politician discourse. The present ...
Sex and the political process: An analysis of sex stereotypes in 1998 senatorial and gubernatorial campaigns.
(2000)
By triangulating quantitative content analysis of political ads and newspaper coverage with qualitative interviews of political candidates significant and interesting results are revealed concerning candidates, stereotypes, ...
Mediated citizens: Mass media depictions of citizens and the influence of those depictions on individual perceptions of what it means to be a democratic citizen.
(2007)
The survey portion of this study found that overall media use had a weak impact on perceptions of what it means to be a democratic citizen. However, while media use did not strongly influence individual perceptions of what ...
Perceptions of people, process, and policy on political trust.
(2007)
The qualities of the people serving in government, the processes used, and the policies that result have been put forth in the literature as possible determinants of political trust (Miller and Borrelli 1991; Ulbig 2002; ...
Essays on economic development in Latin America.
(2007)
Chapter Three empirically analyzes the effect of inequality on economic growth in Latin American countries. I use the area of family farms as a percentage of total agricultural holdings as a measure of inequality. In a ...