Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada

Soroka, Stuart N.

University of British Columbia Press（2003/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 168 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780774809597
• DDC分類 320.971

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2002. This book surveys the development of eight issues in Canada over a decade - AIDS, crime, the debt/deficit, the environment, inflation, national unity, taxes, and unemployment.

Full Description

Why do public issues like the environment rise and fall inimportance over time? To what extent can the trends in salience beexplained by real-world factors? To what degree are they the product ofinteractions between media content, public opinion, and policymaking?This book surveys the development of eight issues in Canada over adecade -- AIDS, crime, the debt/deficit, the environment, inflation,national unity, taxes, and unemployment -- to explore how the salienceof issues changes over time, and to examine why these changes areimportant to our understanding of everyday politics.

Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada offers one of the firstempirical analyses of the interaction of the media, the public, andpolicymakers in Canada and, more generally, makes an importantcontribution to the study of political communications and policymakingwell beyond the Canadian context.

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

 

1 Introduction

2 Issues and Issue Types

3 The Media Agenda

4 The Public Agenda

5 The Policy Agenda

6 Modelling Agenda-Setting

7 Expanding the Models

8 Final Conclusions

 

Appendices

A Time Series Methods and Agenda-Setting

B The Media Agenda

C The Public Agenda

D The Policy Agenda

E Real-World Indicators

 

References

Index