First draft of your seminar paper is due. Submit the first draft of your paper in the IS.

Are citizens pliable? Media effects.

Required:

Clawson & Oxley pp. 69-73, and pp. 81-99

Vliegenthart, R., A. R. T. Schuck, H. G. Boomgaarden, and C. H. De Vreese.  2008.  "News Coverage and Support for European Integration, 1990-2006."  International Journal of Public Opinion Research 20: 415-39.

Recommended:

Bruter, M.  2009.  "Time Bomb? The Dynamic Effect of News and Symbols on the Political Identity of European Citizens."  Comparative Political Studies 42: 1498-536.

Zaller, John. The nature and origins of mass opinion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

de Vreese, Claes. 2004. "The Efects of Frames in Political Television on Issue Interpretation and Frame Saliance. Journalism&Mass Communication Quarterly, 81(1).

Nelson, T. E., Clawson, R. A., and Oxley, Z. M. 1997. "Media framing of a civil liberties conflict and its effect on tolerance." American Political Science Review, 567-583.