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  • Political Socialization in a Media-Saturated World

    Edited by Esther Thorson, Mitchell S. McKinney, Dhavan Shah ...
    Series Book 29 - Frontiers in Political Communication
    The studies that comprise Political Socialization in a Media Saturated World synthesize, question, and update our knowledge of political socialization that has accumulated over the past 40 years of related research. The scholarship advances innovative theoretical perspectives and develops new models of the socialization process that revolve around the key social structures of family, media, peers, ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Battleground

    Asymmetric Communication Ecologies and the Erosion of Civil Society in Wisconsin

    by Lewis A. Friedland, Dhavan V. Shah, Michael W. Wagner, Katherine J. Cramer, Chris Wells, Jon Pevehouse ...
    Series series Elements in Politics and Communication
    Battleground models Wisconsin's contentious political communication ecology: the way that politics, social life, and communication intersect and create conditions of polarization and democratic decline. Drawing from 10 years of interviews, news and social media content, and state-wide surveys, we combine qualitative and computational analysis with time-series and multi-level modeling to study this ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • News Frames and National Security

    Covering Big Brother

    by Douglas M. McLeod, Dhavan V. Shah ...
    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    Did media coverage contribute to Americans' tendency to favor national security over civil liberties following the 9/11 attacks? How did news framing of terrorist threats support the expanding surveillance state revealed by Edward Snowden? Douglas M. McLeod and Dhavan V. Shah explore the power of news coverage to render targeted groups suspicious and to spur support for government surveillance. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Public Policy

    A New Introduction

    by Christoph Knill, Jale Tosun ...
    Series series Textbooks in Policy Studies
    A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining underpinned by cutting-edge research. Bringing together analysis of classic works alongside the most recent developments in the field, this book is guided by the following three crucial questions: What is public policy? ... Read more

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  • Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian Action

    Reflections on Médecins Sans Frontières' Perception Project

    by Caroline Abu-Sada ...
    What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid? What is the real impact of humanitarian groups? Médecins Sans Frontières sought to answer these questions in the Perception Project, a study that spanned four years and more than ten countries. MSF interviewed close to 7,000 people in order to understand the ways that patients, populations, authorities, and communities perceive ... Read more

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  • The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development

    Changing Rules for Realistic Solutions

    by Matt Andrews ...
    Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make governments better because they are introduced as signals to gain short-term support. These signals introduce unrealistic best practices that do not fit developing country contexts and are not considered ... Read more

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  • Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

    Edited by Rachel M. Gisselquist ...
    Development assistance to fragile states and conflict-affected areas can be a core component of peacebuilding, providing support for the restoration of government functions, delivery of basic services, the rule of law, and economic revitalization. What has worked, why it has worked, and what is scalable and transferable, are key questions for both development practice and research into how peace ... Read more

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  • Who Governs the Globe?

    Edited by Deborah D. Avant, Martha Finnemore, Susan K. Sell ...
    Series Book 114 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Academics and policymakers frequently discuss global governance but they treat governance as a structure or process, rarely considering who actually does the governing. This volume focuses on the agents of global governance: 'global governors'. The global policy arena is filled with a wide variety of actors such as international organizations, corporations, professional associations, and advocacy ... Read more

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  • Democracy's Double-Edged Sword

    How Internet Use Changes Citizens' Views of Their Government

    by Catie Snow Bailard ...
    "Playing into the hands of neither the cyber-optimists nor the cyber-pessimists . . . this book makes a major contribution to our understanding." —Talia Stroud, author of Niche News: The Politics of News ChoiceThe beauty of democracy is not only that citizens can vote a candidate into office but that they can also vote one out. As digital media has grown omnipresent, it becomes more important for ... Read more

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  • Polling and Public Opinion

    A Canadian Perspective

    by Peter Marshall Butler ...
    The importance of polling public opinion is widely recognized today. Indeed, it is sometimes argued that in mass societies, polls have also become an important medium for communicating ideas and beliefs, especially since many people have become less involved in community organizations and interest groups that formerly connected them to events and issues. Polling and Public Opinion examines the ... Read more

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  • Strengthening Coherence between Agriculture and Social Protection to Combat Poverty and Hunger in Africa Diagnostic Tool

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Agriculture and social protection are fundamentally linked in the context of rural livelihoods in Africa. Poor and food-insecure families depend primarily on agriculture and partly on non-farm income and private transfers for their livelihoods, and are the main target of social protection interventions (FAO, 2015). When embedded within a broader rural development framework, stronger coherence ... Read more

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