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9%OFFMatthew Eshbaugh-Soha - Breaking Through the Noise: Presidential Leadership, Public Opinion, and the News Media - 9780804777063 - V9780804777063
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Breaking Through the Noise: Presidential Leadership, Public Opinion, and the News Media

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Description for Breaking Through the Noise: Presidential Leadership, Public Opinion, and the News Media Paperback. This book explores how presidential leadership of the public most typically occurs through leadership of the news media. Series: Studies in the Modern Presidency. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 369.

Modern presidents engage in public leadership through national television addresses, routine speechmaking, and by speaking to local audiences. With these strategies, presidents tend to influence the media's agenda. In fact, presidential leadership of the news media provides an important avenue for indirect presidential leadership of the public, the president's ultimate target audience. Although frequently left out of sophisticated treatments of the public presidency, the media are directly incorporated into this book's theoretical approach and analysis.

The authors find that when the public expresses real concern about an issue, such as high unemployment, the president tends to be responsive. But ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Studies in the Modern Presidency
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804777063
SKU
V9780804777063
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About Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha
Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. He is the author of The President's Speeches: Beyond "Going Public"(2006). Jeffrey S. Peake is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Clemson University. With Glen Krutz, he is coauthor of Treaty Politics and the Rise of Executive ... Read more

Reviews for Breaking Through the Noise: Presidential Leadership, Public Opinion, and the News Media
"Breaking Through the Noise marks an advance in the public presidency literature on several counts . . . Eshbaugh-Soha and Peake present a strong case that scholars working in the field of the public presidency need to devote more attention to agenda setting."—Bruce Miroff, Congress & the Presidency "Important research on the 'public presidency' has been concerned with the extent ... Read more

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