Public-Elite Interactions: Puzzles in Search of Researchers

Dennis Chong; James N. Druckman

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199545636.003.0011

Public-Elite Interactions: Puzzles in Search of Researchers

Dennis Chong^*, James N. Druckman

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Abstract

This chapter pinpoints the most pressing problems in research on the effect of elite rhetoric on public opinion. It discusses the empirical and theoretical issues in four particular realms, namely the elite strategies of communications, the implications of political communications research on democratic theory, the conceptualization of communication effects, and the conditions that guide elite influence. The chapter offers a personal perspective on each of these realms, as well as examples and key questions that deserve further study.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780191728389
ISBN (Print)	9780199545636
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199545636.003.0011
State	Published - May 19 2011

Keywords

Communication effects
Democratic theory
Elite influence
Elite rhetoric
Elite strategies
Empirical issues
Political communications research
Theoretical issues

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences

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