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The Media Game: American Politics in the Television Age (New Topics in Politics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Ansolabehere, Stephen

Iyengar, Shanto

Behr, Roy

Social Sciences

Longman

Drawing on both laboratory experiments and the real world of America's presidential, gubernatorial, and congressional races, the authors show that negative advertising drives down voter turnout - in some cases dramatically - and that political consultants intentionally use ads for this very purpose. In the 1992 presidential election, by the authors' calculation, over 6 million votes were lost to negative campaigns. Negative ads work better for Republicans than for Democrats, and better for men than for women; unfortunately, negative ads also work better in general than positive ones, so attacking has become nearly universal. Republican primary campaigns increasingly set the tone for our national general elections, and they do so with relentless attacks. Everyone, even a war hero like Colin Powell, is fair game, and few reputations can emerge unscathed. The result of such a bitter contest is that independent voters, who are disproportionately well educated and open minded, are repulsed by the entire system and have been converted to non-voting apathetics. We are losing some of our best citizens, and pandering to the extremists who remain.

Going Negative: How Attack Ads Shrink and Polarize the Electorate

Free

How Americans make energy choices, why they think locally (not globally), and how this can shape U.S. energy and climate change policy.
How do Americans think about energy? Is the debate over fossil fuels highly partisan and ideological? Does public opinion about fossil fuels and alternative energies divide along the fault between red states and blue states? And how much do concerns about climate change weigh on their opinions? In Cheap and Clean, Stephen Ansolabehere and David Konisky show that Americans are more pragmatic than ideological in their opinions about energy alternatives, more unified than divided about their main concerns, and more local than global in their approach to energy.
Drawing on extensive surveys they designed and conducted over the course of a decade (in conjunction with MIT's Energy Initiative), Ansolabehere and Konisky report that beliefs about the costs and environmental harms associated with particular fuels drive public opinions about energy. People approach energy choices as consumers, and what is most important to them is simply that energy be cheap and clean. Most of us want energy at low economic cost and with little social cost (that is, minimal health risk from pollution). The authors also find that although environmental concerns weigh heavily in people's energy preferences, these concerns are local and not global. Worries about global warming are less pressing to most than worries about their own city's smog and toxic waste. With this in mind, Ansolabehere and Konisky argue for policies that target both local pollutants and carbon emissions (the main source of global warming). The local and immediate nature of people's energy concerns can be the starting point for a new approach to energy and climate change policy.

Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think About Energy in the Age of Global Warming

Science & Math

Konisky, David M.

Technology

Mit Pr

Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming (Mit Press)

Business & Money

Economics

MIT Press]

The best text for teaching students to think analytically about American politics.In this major revision, new co-author Stephen Ansolabehere sharpens the contemporary analytical perspective in the political behavior chapters, and a new primer on Analyzing Evidence in Chapter 1 sets the stage for sections in every chapter that highlight the political science behind the findings reported in the text. Throughout the book, the authors have integrated the popular Five Principles of Politics framework more deeply into each chapters analysis.

American Government: Power and Purpose, 2010 Election Update

GINSBERG, BENJAMIN

Lowi, Theodore J.

Shepsle, Kenneth A.

Politics & Government

W.W.Norton&Company

The best brief text for teaching students to think analytically about American politics. In this major revision, new coauthor Stephen Ansolabehere sharpens the contemporary analytical perspective in the political behavior chapters, and a new primer on “Analyzing the Evidence” in Chapter 1 sets the stage for sections in every chapter that highlight the political science behind the findings reported in the text. Throughout the book, the authors have brought in recent examples and data.

American Government: Power and Purpose (Brief Eleventh Edition, 2010 Election Update)

The best text for teaching students to think analytically about American politics. In this major revision, new co-author Stephen Ansolabehere sharpens the contemporary analytical perspective in the political behavior chapters, and a new primer on “Analyzing Evidence” in Chapter 1 sets the stage for sections in every chapter that highlight the political science behind the findings reported in the text. Throughout the book, the authors have integrated the popular Five Principles of Politics framework more deeply into each chapter’s analysis.

American Government: Power and Purpose (Core Eleventh Edition, 2010 Election Update (without policy chapters))

American Government: Power and Purpose

Always authoritative. More contemporary than ever. The text that professors trust to get students thinking analytically about American government now includes new content on how race, gender, and group identity intersect with political behavior and institutions. And, leading scholars have contributed new “Analyzing the Evidence” features that engage students with the questions and methods that political students use themselves.

Always authoritative. More contemporary than ever.The text that professors trust to get students thinking analytically about American government has been extensively revised by co-author Stephen Ansolabehere and updated with new "Analyzing the Evidence" sections written by top researchers.

Always authoritative. More contemporary than ever.
The text that professors trust to get students thinking analytically about American government now includes new content on how race, gender, and group identity intersect with political behavior and institutions. And, leading scholars have contributed new “Analyzing the Evidence” features that engage students with the questions and methods that political students use themselves.
The 2014 Election Update editions include results and analysis from the 2014 election results as well as updated discussions of other important political developments, such as Obama’s executive orders on immigration and the new limits on the filibuster. In addition, many figures and tables have been updated with the latest data.

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The Media Game: American Politics in the Television Age (New Topics in Politics)

Going Negative: How Attack Ads Shrink and Polarize the Electorate

Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think About Energy in the Age of Global Warming

Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming (Mit Press)

American Government: Power and Purpose, 2010 Election Update

American Government: Power and Purpose (Brief Eleventh Edition, 2010 Election Update)

American Government: Power and Purpose (Core Eleventh Edition, 2010 Election Update (without policy chapters))

American Government: Power and Purpose

American Government: Power and Purpose

American Government: Power and Purpose