The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes by Paul M. Kellstedt

Author: Paul M. Kellstedt
eBook Title: The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes
ISBN10: 0521529158
ISBN13: 978-0521529150
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (August 4, 2003)
Category: Politics & Social Sciences
Subcategory: Anthropology
Size ePub vers.: 1439 kb
Size PDF vers.: 1302 kb
Other formats: cb7, odf, pdf, azw, ibooks, mobi
Rating: 3.7
Votes: 436
Pages:

Paul Kellstedt examines variation in Americans' racial attitudes over the last half-century, particularly in the relationship between media coverage and American public opinion. His analyses reveal that racial policy preferences have evolved in an unpredicted way over the past fifty years. Sustained periods of liberalism, invariably followed by eras of conservatism, respond to cues presented in the national media. Kellstedt examines this relationship between attitudes on the two major issues of the twentieth century--race and the welfare state.