Doris A Graber
Biographic Data
| ID | 314775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Doris A Graber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Doris A |
| FAMILY NAME | Graber |
| SIGNATURE | GRABER D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 89 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 283 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Kind Pictures and Harsh Words
Modern presidential candidates spend most of their campaigning time, money, and effort to appear on America’s millions of television screens. Campaign managers would undoubtedly agree with newsman James Wooten’s comment that “the entire apparatus, focus and structure of a campaign and 99.9 percent of staff energies are directed toward the evening network broadcast.” 1 The reasons for this focus of efforts are easy to grasp. The candidates want a …
Mass Media and American Politics
Looking at the United States Through Distorted Lenses
The image of the United States in the Middle East has plummeted dramatically since 9/11. To stem growing anti-Americanism and improve America's image, the U.S. State Department has substantially increased public diplomacy staffs and program funding in selected Middle East countries. Although officials stationed in the Middle East give their public diplomacy operations favorable ratings, the image of the United States remains bad and continues to …
Post‐Broadcast Democracy
Politics and Film
Journal Article Politics and Film: The Political Culture of Film in the United States by Daniel P. Franklin Get access Politics and Film: The Political Culture of Film in the United Statesby Daniel P. Franklin. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006. 223pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $26.95. Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Politi…
Comparing Media Systems
Comparing Political Communication
Government by the people, for the people—twenty‐first century style
Citizens' competence for democratic self‐government must be judged by their ability to perform the typical functions of modern citizenship, rather than by their scores on surveys of political information—which are flawed in a variety of important respects. The role requirements for effective citizenship have changed throughout American history because government has grown vastly in size, complexity, and the range of functions that it performs. Ef…
Political Communication Faces the 21st Century
Doris A. Graber, James M. Smith; Political Communication Faces the 21st Century, Journal of Communication, Volume 55, Issue 3, 1 September 2005, Pages 479
Entertainment and Politics
Journal Article Entertainment and Politics: The Influence of Pop Culture on Young Adult Political Socialization Get access Entertainment and Politics: The Influence of Pop Culture on Young Adult Political Socialization by David J. Jackson. New York, Peter Lang Publishing, 2002. 167 pp. Paper, $24.95. Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political…
Democrats/Republicans and the Politics of Women's Place
Journal Article Democrats/Republicans and the Politics of Women's Place Get access Democrats/Republicans and the Politics of Women's Place by Kira Sanbonmatsu. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2002. 310 pp. $47.50. Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 118, Issue 3, Fall 2003, Pages 523–524, https://doi.…
Pulp Politics
Covering Clinton
Journal Article Covering Clinton: The President and the Press in the 1990s Get access Covering Clinton: The President and the Press in the 1990s by Joseph Hayden. Westport, CT, Greenwood Publishing Group. 168 pp. $55.00. Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 118, Issue 2, Summer 2003, Pages 315–316, https://doi.…
The Rocky Road to New Paradigms
There was a time when nearly everybody who was anybody among Western cognoscenti knew that the world was flat. All the maps showed it, the scientists confirmed it, and the church preached it. Anyone who nonetheless proposed sailing westward from Europe to reach India found himself without resources to undertake a voyage expected to lead to a disastrous drop off the edge of the flat earth. Anyone daring to even question the established paradigm ab…
Processing Politics
Whither Televised Election News
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Breaking the News
Presidential Performance Criteria
What are the appropriate criteria for evaluating candidates for the presidency? To find answers based on the collective record of the past, we analyzed the content of randomly selected biographies covering a dozen modern presidencies. From these, we distilled lists of performance criteria to which over one hundred biographers attributed the successes and failures of presidencies. Yet a comparison of eight newspapers and three news magazines revea…
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The ‘New’ Media and Politics
Banks, J. 1990. Model of Electoral Competition with Incomplete Information. Journal of Economic Theory 50, 309-25. Gilliam, F., S. Iyengar, A. Simon, and O. Wright. 1995. Crime in Black and White: The Violent and Scary World of Local News. Harvard International Journal of Press and Politics. Forthcoming. Green, D., and I. Shapiro. 1994. Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science. New Haven: Yale Univers…
Say it with Pictures
The visual information presented in televised news constitutes an important underused and underestimated information resource. After pointing out that human brains extract valuable information from audiovisuals more quickly and more easily than from purely verbal information, the author discusses the advantages of audiovisual processing. They include a more comprehensive and error-free grasp of information, better recall, and greater emotional in…
Why voters fail information tests
Renowned public opinion scholars have provided solid evidence that average voters generally make rational political choices. If this is correct, why have most recent studies that measured voter knowledge and learning of current information yielded appallingly low scores? The essay sheds light on this intriguing puzzle by showing that current tests of voter knowledge, which focus on rote memorization of names and factual details, underrate voters'…
The Infotainment Quotient in Routine Television News
To what extent does routine television news supply citizens with essential political information? To what extent are routine stories sensationalized so that their informational content is diluted or obscured? How do television news directors frame routine news stories and rationalize the mix of factual reporting and dramatization that they present? To answer these questions, television news producers were presented with hypothetical routine news …
Impact
Journal Article Impact: How the Press Affects Federal Policymaking, by Martin Linsky Get access Impact: How the Press Affects Federal Policymaking by Martin Linsky. New York, W.W. Norton, 1986. 260 pp. $19.95. Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 102, Issue 4, Winter 1987, Pages 700–701, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Press and TV as Opinion Resources in Presidential Campaigns
Journal Article Press and TV as Opinion Resources in Presidential Campaigns Get access Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber is Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 3, Fall 1976, Pages 285–303, https://doi.org/10.1086/268306 Published: 01 January 1976
Television news without pictures
1987). Television news without pictures? Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 74-78
Strange Bedfellows
The Kennedy Crises
This analysis of the Kennedy administration's relationship with the press during the Laotian, Berlin, Cuban missile, and Vietnam crises of 1961-63 suggests that press coverage and Kennedy's influence on the press were far more varied than scholars have supposed. Focusing on press coverage of government officials, foreign leaders, domestic politicians, and interest groups, the study combines quantitative analysis with previously untapped sources i…
Government by the people, for the people—twenty‐first century style
Citizens' competence for democratic self‐government must be judged by their ability to perform the typical functions of modern citizenship, rather than by their scores on surveys of political information—which are flawed in a variety of important respects. The role requirements for effective citizenship have changed throughout American history because government has grown vastly in size, complexity, and the range of functions that it performs. Ef…
The Rocky Road to New Paradigms
There was a time when nearly everybody who was anybody among Western cognoscenti knew that the world was flat. All the maps showed it, the scientists confirmed it, and the church preached it. Anyone who nonetheless proposed sailing westward from Europe to reach India found himself without resources to undertake a voyage expected to lead to a disastrous drop off the edge of the flat earth. Anyone daring to even question the established paradigm ab…
The ‘New’ Media and Politics
Banks, J. 1990. Model of Electoral Competition with Incomplete Information. Journal of Economic Theory 50, 309-25. Gilliam, F., S. Iyengar, A. Simon, and O. Wright. 1995. Crime in Black and White: The Violent and Scary World of Local News. Harvard International Journal of Press and Politics. Forthcoming. Green, D., and I. Shapiro. 1994. Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science. New Haven: Yale Univers…
Content and Meaning
The Government/Press Connection
Journal Article The Government/Press Connection: Press Officers and Their Offices, by Stephen Hess Get access The Government/Press Connection: Press Officers and Their Offices by Hess Stephen. Washington, D.C., The Brookings Institution, 1984. 160 pp. Cloth, $22.95; paper, $8.95. Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Vol…
Reporters and Officials
Journal Article Reporters and Officials: The Organization and Politics of Newsmaking, by Leon V. Sigal Get access Reporters and Officials: The Organization and Politics of Newsmaking by Sigal Leon V.. Lexington, Mass., D. C. Heath and Company, 1973.–xiv, 221 pp. Cloth, $11.50; paper, $4.50. Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Scie…
A Trumpet to Arms
Press Freedom and the General Welfare
When evaluating concepts like freedom of speech and of the press, it is prudent to look beyond the benefit side of the ledger to the cost side as well. Only then can one judge whether benefits are worth the costs or whether one is paying too much for the proverbial whistle. Such a cost-benefit analysis has rarely been undertaken when it comes to press freedom. The importance of a free press has been so axiomatic that its presumed benefits have se…
Democrats/Republicans and the Politics of Women's Place
Journal Article Democrats/Republicans and the Politics of Women's Place Get access Democrats/Republicans and the Politics of Women's Place by Kira Sanbonmatsu. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2002. 310 pp. $47.50. Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 118, Issue 3, Fall 2003, Pages 523–524, https://doi.…
Making Campaign News User Friendly
Surveys of the electorate routinely disclose that knowledge about politics, including elections, is appallingly low. Using content analysis and information-processing data, the argument is presented that such results are inevitable, despite the public's political astuteness, because the presentation of political information by the American media does not suit the information-processing capabilities and habits of average Americans. The article sug…
Live from Capitol Hill
In this fourth volume of his highly acclaimed Newswork series, Stephen Hess offers a revealing look at the culture of journalism in Washington and the relations between legislators and the media. Satellite technology, cable television, and gavel-to-gavel coverage of floor proceedings in the House and Senate during the 1980s led many to believe that local media were challenging the importance of big-circulation newspapers and network television ne…
Conflict Images
Whither Televised Election News
The American President
Press Coverage and Voter Reaction in the 1968 Presidential Election
Journal Article Press Coverage and Voter Reaction in the 1968 Presidential Election Get access Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber DORIS A. GRABER is professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. She is the author of Public Opinion, the President and Foreign Policy and Verbal Behavior and Politics, as well as numerous articles dealing with mass and elite political opinions. Search for other works by this author on: O…
Perceptions of Middle East conflict in the UN, 1953 -1965
Comparing Media Systems
The Truman and Eisenhower Doctrines in the Light of the Doctrine of Non-Intervention
Journal Article The Truman and Eisenhower Doctrines in the Light of the Doctrine of Non-Intervention Get access Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber The University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 73, Issue 3, September 1958, Pages 321–334, https://doi.org/10.2307/2145842 Published: 15 September 1958
Are Foreign Aid Objectives Attainable
Are Foreign Aid Objectives Attainable
HE AMERICAN PUBLIC and Congress have long expressed widespread and deep dissatisfaction with our economic and military foreign aid program. As inflated as pregnant elephant, globeloney, a shocking waste, bloated, many ways dangerous, overextended in resources and undercompensated in results, are but few of the epithets and slogans current in Washington.' Testimony in hearings on Foreign Aid bills is full of complaints about specific instances of …
International Aid
Journal Article International Aid: A Summary, by Hugh L. Keenleyside Get access International Aid: A Summary by Hugh L. Keenleyside. New York, James H. Heineman, 1966.—xiii, 343 pp. $6.30. Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 82, Issue 3, September 1967, Pages 460–461, https://doi.org/10.2307/2146783 Published: 1…
Public Opinion, the President, and Foreign Policy
The Common Aid Effort
Perceptions of Middle East conflict in the UN, 1953 -1965
The Global Partnership
Journal Article The Global Partnership: International Agencies and Economic Development, by Richard N. Gardner, Max F. Millikan Get access The Global Partnership: International Agencies and Economic Development edited by Richard N. Gardner and Max F. Millikan. New York, Washington, and London, Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. —vii, 498 pp. $9.50. Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: …
Public Opinion, the President, and Foreign Policy
Conflict Images
Present at the Creation
Journal Article Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department, by Dean Acheson Get access Present at The Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson. New York, W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1969. — xvii, 798 pp. $15.00. Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 86, Issue 4, December 1971, Pages …
Europe and America
Press Coverage and Voter Reaction in the 1968 Presidential Election
Journal Article Press Coverage and Voter Reaction in the 1968 Presidential Election Get access Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber DORIS A. GRABER is professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. She is the author of Public Opinion, the President and Foreign Policy and Verbal Behavior and Politics, as well as numerous articles dealing with mass and elite political opinions. Search for other works by this author on: O…
Reporters and Officials
Journal Article Reporters and Officials: The Organization and Politics of Newsmaking, by Leon V. Sigal Get access Reporters and Officials: The Organization and Politics of Newsmaking by Sigal Leon V.. Lexington, Mass., D. C. Heath and Company, 1973.–xiv, 221 pp. Cloth, $11.50; paper, $4.50. Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Scie…
The Good Guys, the Bad Guys and the First Amendment
Press and TV as Opinion Resources in Presidential Campaigns
Journal Article Press and TV as Opinion Resources in Presidential Campaigns Get access Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber is Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 3, Fall 1976, Pages 285–303, https://doi.org/10.1086/268306 Published: 01 January 1976
Verbal Behavior and Politics
Power, Influence and Authority
Bias in the News
The Sponsor
The Media and the Police
Is Crime News Coverage Excessive
Journal Article Is Crime News Coverage Excessive? Get access Doris A. Graber Doris A. Graber 1Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. The research reported here was made possible through financial support from the Center for Research in Criminal Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, directed by Hans W. Mattick. Computer services were made available through the Computer Center at the University.…
Deciding What's News
A Trumpet to Arms
Reading Between the Lines of Consumer Confidence Measures
Journal Article Reading Between the Lines of Consumer Confidence Measures Get access DORIS A. GRABER DORIS A. GRABER Doris A. Graber is Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 3, FALL 1982, Pages 336–339, https://doi.org/10.1086/268730 Published: 01 January 1982
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