Reassessing the People's Choice
Revisiting a Classic and Excavating Lessons for Research About Media and Voting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12749376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Lacy (0000-0003-4831-5135, Michigan State University, corresponding author), Meelis Stamm (0000-0002-0090-008X, Michigan State University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 105-126 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mass Communication & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1520-5436 • E-ISSN: 1532-7825 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15205436.2015.1059949 |
| OpenAlex | W2158724995 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
This article reassesses The People's Choice by Paul Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson, and Hazel Gaudet, one of the foundations of communication and voting behavior research. As with most classics, which are often cited but seldom read, we believe this book has much to teach contemporary social scientists. We return to the original context of the research and use voting data from the period with three broad goals: (a) to find ideas and lessons from this work that generally have been overlooked, (b) to suggest new ways of applying these ideas, and (c) to encourage scholars to engage more with this seminal work to understand ideas that are often overlooked when a complex piece of research is reduced to a brief discussion or passing citation
Aesthetics · Citation · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Media studies · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics
Middletown in transition
The cultural front
Agenda-Setting Theory
Models of man, social and rational
The Averaged American
Framing as a Theory of Media Effects
The Media Revolution in America and Western Europe
New Directions in Agenda-Setting Theory and Research
The Powerful Role of Interpersonal Communication in Agenda Setting
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Beyond Liberals and Conservatives to Political Genotypes and Phenotypes
Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations
Political ideology as motivated social cognition
Framing
Mnemonic Multiples
Media sociology
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |