Communications Working Papers


Communications, Media and Public Opinion Working Papers




WP-01-06 Policy Responsiveness to Public Opinion: The State of the Debate
Jeff Manza and Fay Lomax Cook
WP-01-07 Public Service Announcements, Broadcasters, and the Public Interest: Regulatory Background and the Digital Future
Craig L. LaMay
WP-00-04

Probabilistic Polling
Charles Manski

WP-00-05 Invoking Public Opinion: Polls, Policy Debates, and the Future of Social Security
Fay Lomax Cook, Jason Barabas, and Benjamin I. Page
WP-00-21

The Truly Disfranchised: Felon Voting Rights and American Politics
Jeff Manza, Christopher Uggen and Marcus Britton

WP-00-22 Assessing Assumptions About Americans’ Attitudes Toward Social Security: Popular Claims Meet Hard Data
Fay Lomax Cook and Lawrence R. Jacobs
WP-99-08 Revival of the New Deal Coalitions? Social Groups and Political Change in the 1990s
Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks
WP-99-22 Deliberative Democracy in Action: An Analysis of the Effects of Public Deliberation
Fay Lomax Cook, Jason Barabas and lawrence R. Jacobs
WP-98-15 African-American and Latino Views of Local Chicago TV News
Cynthia C. Linton and Robert K. LeBailly
WP-98-30 The New Politics of Social Security
Fay Lomax Cook
WP-98-31 Reassessing Public Opinion Stability
Jason Barabas
WP-97-10 Describing and Explaining Public Support for Social Welfare Programs Over Time
Fay Lomax Cook and Jason Barabas
WP-97-11 The Funding Perils of Public Broadcasting
Craig L. LaMay and Burton A. Weisbrod
WP-97-12 Does Media Ownership Affect Media Stands? The Case of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
James H. Snider and Benjamin I. Page
WP-97-13 When Morality and Economics Collide (or Not) in a Texas Community
Dennis Chong and Anna-Maria Marshall
WP-97-29 The Political Power of TV Broadcasters: Covert Bias and Anticipated Reactions
James H. Snider and Benjamin I. Page
WP-96-35 Print Media Support for Social Welfare Programs: The View from the Opinion Pages of the Elite Press
Fay Lomax Cook and Gretchen Caspary
WP-95-30 Journalists and the Condemned: The Limits of Media Agenda-Setting in Capital Cases
David L. Protess
WP-94-11 The Breaking Dike of Information: Confidentiality, the News Media and the Joseph Wallace Case
Jack C. Doppelt
WP-93-25 The Private and Public Spheres in Campaign '92: Ethics, Epistemology and Power in News of Infidelity
Robert M. Entman
WP-93-26 Hate Crimes and the Press: A Refracted Mirror
David L. Protess
WP-93-27 Framing the Libya Crisis of 1986: The Contest for Context
Scott L. Althaus, Jill A. Edy, Robert M. Entman, Hiroo Notany, Patricia Phalen, and Rob Schneider

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