Democratic accountability requires that the public be reasonably well-informed about what
policymakers actually do. Such a public would adjust its preferences for" more" or" less" …

There is a growing body of work suggesting that responses to positive and negative
information are asymmetric—that negative information has a much greater impact on …

Economic perceptions affect policy preferences and government support. It thus matters that
these perceptions are driven by factors other than the economy, including media coverage …

There are vast literatures on the ways in which media content differs from reality, but we thus
far have a rather weak sense for how exactly the representation of various topics in media …

Public opposition to immigration in Britain reflects perceptions of immigrants that focus
disproportionately on “illegal” immigration and asylum seekers, rather than more numerous …

The media in democratic and nondemocratic regimes: a multilevel perspective/Anthony
Mughan and Richard Gunther-The media and politics in Spain: from dictatorship to …

The main contribution of this study to the understanding of agenda-setting and priming
effects is its focus on the role of evaluative tone in all stages of the agenda setting/priming …

Between 1945 and 1970, it was orthodox to regard Britain as having a very stable,
centralized and party-oriented political system. Parties were vital to a number of …

The representation of public preferences in public policy is fundamental to most conceptions
of democracy. If representation is effectively undertaken, we would expect to find a …

MacKuen, Erikson, and Stimson (1996) argue for a" banker" model of the electorate in which
the expectations of economic experts flow through the news media to the mass public, then …