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Author Gilens, Martin.

Title Why Americans hate welfare : race, media, and the politics of antipoverty policy / Martin Gilens.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  070.4493616 G39w    ---  Available
Description xii, 296 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in communication, media, and public opinion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-279) and index.
Contents The American welfare state : public opinion and public policy -- Individualism, self-interest, and opposition to welfare -- Racial attitudes, the undeserving poor, and opposition to welfare -- Assisting alternative explanations : statistical models of welfare attitudes -- The news media and the racialization of poverty -- Media distortions : causes and consequences -- Racial stereotypes and public responses to poverty -- Beyond the attitude survey public opinion and antipoverty policy -- The politics of the American welfare state.
Subject Public welfare in mass media.
Racism in mass media.
Mass media and public opinion.
Racism.
Public welfare.
Public opinion.
ISBN 0226293645 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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