News Coverage, Public Opinion, and Policy
by
Chris Haynes, Jennifer Merolla, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
While undocumented immigration is controversial, the general public is largely unfamiliar with the particulars of immigration policy. Given that public opinion on the topic is malleable, to what extent do mass media shape the public debate on immigration? In Framing Immigrants, political scientists...