This book proposes that Americans form views on immigration and social welfare programs from conventional ways of speaking rather than from ideologies.

This 1992 book explains how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences.

An eye-opening look at how and why America has become so politically polarized Many continue to believe that the United States is a nation of political moderate

“An important contribution to the literature on contemporary American politics. Both methodologically and substantively, it breaks new ground.” —Journal o

Photo opportunities, ten-second sound bites, talking heads and celebrity anchors: so the world is explained daily to millions of Americans. The result, accordin