Setting the Agenda describes the mass media’s significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention a

Agenda-Setting asks who sets the agenda that brings social problems into the public arena, on to the policy agenda and, finally, to a change of policy. It provi

Demonstrates that the majority party seizes agenda control at nearly every stage of the legislative process.

This volume explores agenda-setting theory in light of changes in the media environment in the 21st century. In the decades since the original Chapel Hill study

The role of the news media in defining the important issues of the day, also known as the agenda-setting influence of mass communication, has received widesprea