Agenda-setting dynamics in Canada / Stuart N. Soroka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soroka, Stuart Neil, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and public opinion--Canada.

Mass media and public opinion.

Mass media--Political aspects--Canada.

Mass media.

Public opinion--Canada.

Public opinion.

Political planning--Canada.

Political planning.

Canada--Politics and government--1980-.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (167 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why do public issues like the environment rise and fall in importance over time? To what extent can the trends in salience be explained by real-world factors? To what degree are they the product of interactions between media content, public opinion, and policymaking? 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 -- to explore how the salience of issues changes over time, and to examine why these changes are important to our understanding of everyday politics. Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada offers one of the first empirical analyses of the interaction of the media, the public, and policymakers in Canada and, more generally, makes an important contribution to the study of political communications and policymaking well beyond the Canadian context.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Issues and Issue Types

The Media Agenda

The Public Agenda

The Policy Agenda

Modelling Agenda-Setting

Expanding the Models

Final Conclusions

Time Series Methods and Agenda-Setting

Real-World Indicators

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-12979-5

9786613129796

0-7748-5035-3

OCLC:

80219384