PART I INTRODUCTION-- 1. Informational Interdependence: Public Opinion and the Media in the New Communications Era-- 2. TheInternet and Four Dimensions of Citizenship-- 3. A Possible Next Frontier in Political Communication Research: Merging the Old with the New-- PART II THE MEDIA-- Foundations-- 4. Tocqueville's Interesting Error: On Journalism and Democracy-- 5. Partisans, Watchdog, and Entertainers: The Press for Democracy and Its Limits-- 6. The News Industry-- 7. What's Newsworthy: A View from the 21st Century-- 8. Soft News and The Four Oprah Effects-- Measurement and Method-- 9. Exposure Measures and Content Analysis in Media Effects Studies-- 10. The Future of Political Communication Research: Online Panels and Experimentation-- Effects-- 11. Public-Elite Interactions: Puzzles in Search of Researchers-- 12. Issue Framing-- 13. Campaigning, Debating, Advertising-- 14. Media Influences on Political Trust and Engagement-- 15. The Effect of Media on Public Knowledge-- 16. News Polls: Constructing an Engaged Public-- PART III PUBLIC OPINION-- Foundations-- 17. Democracy and the Concept of Public Opinion-- 18. Constructing Public Opinion: A Brief History of Survey Research-- 19. Critical Perspectives on Public Opinion-- Measurement-- 20. The Accuracy of Opinion Polling and Its Relation to Its Future-- 21. Representative Sampling and Survey Non-Response-- 22. Instrument Design: Question Form, Wording and Context Effects-- Micro-Level Frameworks-- 23. Political Cognition and Public Opinion-- 24. Emotion and Public Opinion-- 25. Prospect Theory and Risk Assessment-- 26. Connecting the Social and Biological Bases of Public Opinion-- 27. Attitude Organization in the Mass Public: The Impact of Ideology and Partisanship-- The Pluralism of Public Opinion-- 28. Political Socialization: Ongoing Questions and New Directions-- 29. On the Complex and Varied Political Effects of Gender-- 30. The Contours of Black Public Opinion-- 31. Latino Public Opinion-- 32. Asian American Public Opinion-- 33. A Vine with Many Branches: Religion and Public Opinion Research (-- 34. Class Differences in Social and Political Attitudes in the United States-- 35. Knowledge, Sophistication, and Issue Publics-- PART IV ISSUES AND POLITICS-- 36. Public Opinion, the Media, and Economic Well-Being-- 37. Race, Public Opinion, the Media-- 38. Public Opinion, the Media, and Social Issues-- 39. Big Government and Public Opinion-- Foreign Policy and Security-- 40. Public Opinion, Foreign Policy and the Media: Toward an Integrative Theory-- 41. Public Opinion, the Media, and War-- 42. The Media, Public Opinion, and Terrorism-- V. Democracy Under Stress-- 43. The Democratic Paradox: The Waning of Popular Sovereignty and the Pathologies of American Politics-- Index.