Rushed to Judgment

by Barker, David C.

• ISBN13: 9780231118071
• ISBN10: 0231118074
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

-- Diana Owen

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xi
List of Tables	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(13)
Political Persuasion, Propaganda, and Media Effects	4	(10)
Persuasion Variables	6	(1)
Media Effects	7	(3)
Heresthetic	10	(2)
The Construction of Political Meaning	12	(2)
Political Talk Radio and Its Most Prominent Practitioner	14	(16)
Background	15	(2)
Format	17	(1)
Media Portrayal	18	(1)
Audience	19	(4)
Content	23	(1)
Limbaugh	24	(4)
Summary	28	(2)
Toward a Value Heresthetic Model of Political Persuasion	30	(26)
A Model of Value Heresthetic, Rhetoric, and Persuasion Through Talk Radio	34	(6)
Experimental Analysis	40	(13)
Recruitment and Subject Profile	41	(2)
Specific Procedures	43	(1)
The Stimuli	44	(1)
Specific Hypotheses	45	(1)
Selection Bias?	46	(1)
Results	47	(6)
Discussion	53	(3)
Talk Radio, Public Opinion, and Vote Choice: The ``Limbaugh Effect,'' 1994--96	56	(19)
Methodological Issues	58	(1)
Limbaugh and Public Opinion---Cross-sectional Evidence	59	(9)
Two-Stage Least-Squares Analysis	62	(6)
Limbaugh and Opinion Change---Panel Evidence	68	(5)
Support for Dole	71	(1)
Vote Choice	72	(1)
Conclusion	73	(2)
Talk Radio, Opinion Leadership, and Presidential Nominations: Evidence from the 2000 Republican Primary Battle	75	(17)
Vote Choice in Primary Elections	76	(2)
The Struggle for the 2000 Republican Presidential Nomination	78	(2)
Research Design and Methodology	80	(10)
The Sample	80	(1)
Dependent Variables	80	(3)
Independent and Control Variables	83	(1)
Findings	83	(5)
Sophistication	88	(2)
Discussion	90	(2)
The Talk Radio Community: Nontraditional Social Networks and Political Participation	92	(14)
The Efficacy-Priming Experiment	94	(5)
Experimental Results	97	(2)
Constructing Reality from Pseudosocial Networks	99	(5)
Measurement	100	(1)
Results: Political Efficacy	101	(2)
Results: Participation	103	(1)
Discussion	104	(2)
Information, Misinformation, and Political Talk Radio	106	(13)
Research Design and Methodology	109	(5)
The Sample	109	(2)
Measurement of Dependent Variables	111	(3)
Intercorrelations and Model Specification	114	(1)
Findings	115	(2)
Political Talk Radio and Information	115	(1)
Political Talk Radio and Misinformation	116	(1)
Discussion	117	(2)
Conclusion	119	(10)
Understanding Political Persuasion	120	(3)
Deliberative Democracy	123	(3)
Media Effects	126	(3)
Appendix A. The Limbaugh Message	129	(2)
Appendix B. Excerpts from the Rhetoric Stimulus	131	(2)
Appendix C. Excerpts from the Value Heresthetic Stimulus	133	(2)
Notes	135	(6)
References	141	(16)
Index	157