Breaking Through the Noise: Presidential Leadership, Public Opinion, and the News Media (Studies in the Modern Presidency)

De: Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, Jeffrey Peake

Narrado por: Ron Minatrea

Modern presidents engage in public leadership through national television addresses, routine speechmaking, and by speaking to local audiences. With these strategies, presidents tend to influence the media's agenda. In fact, presidential leadership of the news media provides an important avenue for indirect presidential leadership of the public, the president's ultimate target audience. Although frequently left out of sophisticated treatments of the public presidency, the media are directly incorporated into this book's theoretical approach and analysis.

The authors find that when the public expresses real concern about an issue, such as high unemployment, the president tends to be responsive. But when the president gives attention to an issue in which the public does not have a preexisting interest, he can expect, through the news media, to directly influence public opinion. Eshbaugh-Soha and Peake offer key insights on when presidents are likely to have their greatest leadership successes and demonstrate that presidents can indeed "break through the noise" of news coverage to lead the public agenda.

The book is published by Stanford University Press.

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Reseñas de la Crítica

" Breaking Through the Noise expertly expands the debate about presidential leadership and responsiveness in a sophisticated way." (Brandon Rottinghaus, University of Houston)

" Breaking through the Noise is among the best recent scholarship on presidential leadership of and responsiveness to the American public and mass media....This study will be important reading for future scholars of the presidency and democratic responsiveness." (B. Dan Wood, author of The Myth of Presidential Representation)