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Apprehending Politics: News Media and Individual Political Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2006

Stephanie Greco Larson
Stephanie Greco Larson
Affiliation:
Dickinson College
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Apprehending Politics: News Media and Individual Political Development. By Marco Calavita. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. 285p. $81.50 cloth, $27.95 paper.

Marco Calavita conducted extensive interviews with 15 “Generation X” Americans in order to understand their political ideas and how contextual factors (particularly the news media) influenced these thoughts, feelings, and actions. He wisely prefers the term “individual political development” (p. 6) to “political socialization” because he finds it truer to the complex, dynamic, lifelong experience. He is particularly interested in exploring the role that the news media play in attitude formation, stability, and change.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: AMERICAN POLITICS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 177 - 178
Copyright
© 2006 American Political Science Association

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