Political Communications Infrastructure

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 546, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-21

  Neuman, W Russell ^a  

^a School of1'ufts University   (United States)

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EID: 0040645384     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716296546001002     Document Type: Article

References (22)

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4. Sharon E. Gillett, “Connecting Homes to the Internet: An Engineering Cost Model of Cable vs. ISDN” (Master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995).
5. Byron E. Shafer, ed., Is America Different? A New Look at American Exceptionalism (New York: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1991).
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7. Christopher Jencks, Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America (New York: Harper-Colophon Books, 1972).
8. A. C. Nielsen Company, “Nielsen Report on Television” (A.C. Neilsen, 1995).
9. Arbitron Company, “Pathfinder Study Report” (Arbitron, 1995).
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12. W. Russell Neuman, The Future of the Mass Audience (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
13. Edward G. Carmines and James H. Kuklinski, “Incentives, Opportunities, and the Logic of Public Opinion in American Political Representation,” in Information and the Democratic Process, ed. John A. Ferejohn and James H. Kuklinski (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990).
14. Leo Bogart, Silent Politics: Polls and the Awareness of Public Opinion (New York: John Wiley, 1972).
15. It has long been known that a well-designed sample survey of several thousand respondents is better at accurately estimating population parameters than an official census of an entire population of millions. In the course of polling millions, more measurement errors creep in, and if the sampling is unbiased, it is reliably more accurate. Straw polls of the type whereby viewers or readers call or write in-as often as they like-to express preferences are notoriously unrepresentative of public opinion.
16. Frederick Schauer, “Communications Policy and the Distractions of the First Amendment: Toward a Global Information Infrastructure” (Report, United States Information Agency, 1995); National Research Council, Realizing the Future: The Internet and Beyond (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1994).
17. News Interest Index (Washington, DC: Times Mirror Center for the Public and the Press, 1995).
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19. Freedom House, Freedom in the World (New York: Freedom House, 1995).
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21. T. Crouse, The Boys on the Bus (New York: Ballantine Books, 1973).
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