TY  - BOOK
AU  - Huckfeldt,R.Robert
AU  - Sprague,John D.
TI  - Citizens, Politics, and Social Communication : : Information and Influence in an Election Campaign
SN  - 0521452988 (hardback)
AV  - JS1459.S43 A84 1995
U1  - 324.959804 HUC 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Cambridge [England], New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Elections
KW  - Indiana
KW  - South Bend Metropolitan Area
KW  - Political parties
KW  - Communication in politics
KW  - Presidents
KW  - United States
KW  - Election
KW  - 1984
KW  - South Bend Metropolitan Area (Ind.)
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-302) and index; Table of contents
Acknowledgments; Part I. Democratic Politics and Social Communication: 1. The multiple levels of democratic politics; 2. A research strategy for studying electoral politics; Part II. Electoral Dynamics and Social Communication: 3. The social dynamics of political preference; 4. Durability, volatility and social influence; 5. Social dynamics in an election campaign; Part III. Networks, Political Discussants, and Social Communication: 6. Political discussion in an election campaign; 7. Networks in context: The social flow of political information; 8. Choice, social structure, and the informational coercion of minorities; 9. Discussant effects on vote choice: Intimacy, structure, and interdependence; 10. Gender effects on political discussion: The political networks of men and women; Part IV. The Organizational Locus of Social Communication: 11. One-party politics and the voter revisited: strategic and behavioral bases of partisanship; 12. Political parties and electoral mobilization: political structure, social structure, and the party canvass; 13. Alternative contexts of political preference; 14. Political consequences of interdependent citizens; Bibliography; Index
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