Influence Dealers

A Path Analysis Model of Agenda Building during Richard Nixon's War on Drugs

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7499208
AutoresT Johnson (0000-0001-8376-8987, autor correspondente), Thomas J Johnson (0000-0002-0028-4248, Associate Professor in the School of Journalism at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.), Wayne Wanta (0000-0002-9337-4006, An Associate Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Oregon.), Timothy Boudreau (Graduate Students at the Southern Illinois University), Janet Blank-Libra (Graduate Students at the Southern Illinois University), Killian Schaffer (Graduate Students at the Southern Illinois University), Sally Turner (Graduate Students at the Southern Illinois University)
Ano1996
Volume73
Fascículo1
Páginas181-194
Data de publicação1996-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-6990 • E-ISSN: 2161-430X
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/107769909607300116
OpenAlexW2040220525
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

This agenda-building study employed a path analysis model to examine the three-way relationship among the public, the media, and the president on the issue of drug abuse during the Nixon administration. The path model also measured the extent to which these actors were influenced by real-world conditions about the number of drug-related arrests in the United States. Past studies have suggested a cyclical relationship should exist among the president, the press, and the public. This study, however, found a linear relationship with issues moving first, from real world to the media and the public, then from the media to the public, and finally from the public to the president

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