Rushed to judgment: talk radio, persuasion, and American political behavior

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Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

Political persuasion, propaganda, and media effects

Persuasion variables

Media effects

Heresthetic

The construction of political meaning

2. Political talk radio and its most prominent practitioner Background

Format

Media portrayal

Audience

Content

Limbaugh

Summary

3. Toward a value heresthetic model of political persuasion

A model of value heresthetic, rhetoric, and persuasion

Through talk radio

Experimental analysis

Recruitment and subject profile

Specific procedures

The stimuli

Specific hypotheses

Selection bias?

Results

Discussion

4. Talk radio, public opinion, and vote choice : the "Limbaugh effect," 1994-96

Methodological issues

Limbaugh and public opinion - cross-sectional evidence

Two-stage least-squares analysis

Limbaugh and opinion change - panel evidence

Support for Dole

Vote choice

Conclusion

5. Talk radio, opinion leadership, and presidential nominations : evidence from the 2000 Republican primary battle

Vote choice in primary elections

The struggle for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination

Research design and methodology

The sample

Dependent variables

Independent and control variables

Findings

Sophistication

Discussion

6. The talk radio community : nontraditional social networks and political participation

The efficacy-priming experiment

Experimental results

Constructing reality from pseudosocial networks

Measurement

Results : political efficacy

Results : participation

7. Information, misinformation, and political talk radio

Research design and methodology

The sample

Measurement of dependent variables

Intercorrelations and model specification

Findings

Political talk radio and information

Political talk radio and misinformation

Discussion

8. Conclusion

Understanding political persuasion

Deliberative democracy

Media effects

appendix A. The Limbaugh message

appendix B. Excerpts for the rhetoric stimulus

appendix C. Excerpts from the value heresthetic stimulus

notes

References

Index.