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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163939603321

Autore

Vinson Danielle

Titolo

Congress and the media : beyond institutional power / / C. Danielle Vinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-19-063227-5

0-19-063228-3

0-19-063226-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations

Classificazione

POL015000

Disciplina

323.445

Soggetti

Government and the press

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Congress Goes Public -- 2 Four Decades of Going Public in Congress -- 3 Why Congressional Members Go Public -- 4 New Paths to Influence: Broadcast and New Media -- 5 Congress Responds to the President: the Case of Social Security Reform -- Co-authored with Megan S. Remmel -- 6 Overcoming Institutional Weakness: the Congressional Black Caucus Goes Public -- 7 A Tale of Two Senators: Adapting Public Strategies to Different Goals -- 8 The Possibilities and Limits of Going Public in Congress -- Appendix -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Members of Congress have increasingly embraced media relations to influence policymaking. In 'Congress and the Media', Vinson argues that congressional members use the media to supplement their formal powers or to compensate for their lack of power to explain why congressional members go public and when they are likely to succeed in getting coverage.