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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813381903321

Titolo

Winning with words : the origins and impact of political framing / / [edited by] Brian Schaffner, Patrick J. Sellers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-282-28354-5

9786612283543

0-203-88311-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchaffnerBrian F (Brian Frederick)

SellersPatrick J

Disciplina

320.97301/4

Soggetti

Communication in politics - United States

Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Part I Origins; 2 Framing and Value Recruitment in the Debate Over Teaching Evolution; 3 Partisan Framing in Legislative Debates; 4 Building a Framing Campaign: Interest Groups and the Debate on Partial-birth Abortion; 5 Mobilizing to Frame Election Campaigns; Part II Impact; 6 Competing Frames in a Political Campaign; 7 Taxing Death or Estates?: When Frames Influence Citizens' Issue Beliefs

8 Great Communicators?: The Influence of Presidential and Congressional Issue Framing on Party Identification9 The Decline of the Death Penalty: How Media Framing Changed Capital Punishment in America; 10 Framing Research: The Next Steps; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Today's politicians and political groups devote great attention and care to how their messages are conveyed. From policy debates in Congress to advertising on the campaign trail, they carefully choose which issues to emphasize and how to discuss them in the hope of affecting the opinions and evaluations of their target audience. This groundbreaking text brings together prominent scholars from political science, communication, and psychology in a tightly focused analysis of both



the origins and the real-world impact of framing. Across the chapters, the authors discuss a broad range of contem