Impersonal Influence : How Perceptions of Mass Collectives Affect Political Attitudes Hardback
by Diana C. Mutz
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology series
Hardback
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People's perceptions of the attitudes and experiences of mass collectives are an increasingly important force in contemporary political life.
In Impersonal Influence, Mutz goes beyond simply providing examples of how impersonal influence matters in the political process to provide a micro-level understanding of why information about distant and impersonal others often influence people's political attitudes and behaviors.
Impersonal Influence is worthy of attention both from the standpoint of its impact on contemporary politics, and because of its potential to expand the boundaries of our understanding of social influence processes, and media's relation to them.
The book's conclusions do not exonerate media from the effects of inaccurate portrayals of collective experience or opinion, but they suggest that the ways in which people are influenced by these perceptions are in themselves, not so much deleterious to democracy as absolutely necessary to promoting accountability in a large scale society.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:354 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/11/1998
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- ISBN:9780521631327
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:354 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/11/1998
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- ISBN:9780521631327
