Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Introduction: The State of the Art / Elihu Katz
  • 1. Historical Tensions in the Concept of Public Opinion / John Durham Peters
  • 2. Public Opinion and Rationality / Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
  • 3. Levels of Analysis in Public Opinion Research / Jack McLeod, Zhongdang Pan and Dianne Rucinski
  • 4. On the Disappearance of Groups: 19th- and Early 20th-Century Conceptions of Public Opinion / Susan Herbst
  • 5. The Industry of Public Opinion / Peter V. Miller
  • 6. The Press and the Illusion of Public Opinion: The Strange Case of Ronald Reagan's "Popularity" / Elliot King and Michael Schudson
  • 7. Propaganda and the Technological System / Clifford G. Christians
  • 8. Social-Psychological Perspectives on Public Opinion / Vincent Price and Hayg Oshagan
  • 9. The Cognitive Revolution in Public Opinion and Communication Research / James R. Beniger and Jodi A. Gusek
  • 10. Opinions, Perception, and Social Reality / Carroll J. Glynn, Ronald E. Ostman and Daniel G. McDonald.
  • 11. Issues in the News and the Public Agenda: The Agenda-Setting Tradition / Maxwell McCombs, Lucig Danielian and Wayne Wanta
  • 12. Conflict, Consensus, and Public Opinion / Clarice N. Olien, George A. Donohue and Phillip J. Tichenor
  • 13. Origins and Consequences of Mediated Public Opinion / Klaus Schoenbach and Lee B. Becker
  • 14. Making News and Manufacturing Consent: The Journalistic Narrative and Its Audience / Gertrude J. Robinson
  • 15. The Press, Public Opinion, and Public Discourse / James W. Carey
  • 16. The Influence of Rationality Claims on Public Opinion and Policy / Murray Edelman
  • 17. Public Opinion as Public Judgment / Harry C. Boyte
  • 18. The Politics of Polling and the Limits of Consent / Charles T. Salmon and Theodore L. Glasser.