The Democratic Paradox: The Waning of Popular Sovereignty and the Pathologies of American Politics

The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Shapiro, Robert Y ^a   Jacobs, Lawrence R ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

American democracy; Online media; Policy goals; Political elites; Reform; Strategic manipulation; Traditional press

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924280277     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199545636.003.0043     Document Type: Chapter

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