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A Look at Agenda-setting: past, present and future

Maxwell McCombs
- 01 Nov 2005 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 4, pp 543-557
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The agenda of issues that a small group of undecided voters regarded as the most important ones of the day was compared with the priorities of the candidates as discussed by the authors, which was the case ten years ago in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Ten US presidential elections ago in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the agenda of issues that a small group of undecided voters regarded as the most important ones of the day was compared with the ne...

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Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm

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Measuring the Involvement Construct

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Agenda setting function of mass media

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