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Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2005

Robert Klotz
Affiliation:
University of Southern Maine

Extract

Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability. By R. Douglas Arnold. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 304p. $35.00.

R. Douglas Arnold sets an ambitious goal: “This book is the first large-scale study of how local media outlets cover members of Congress” (pp. 3–4). His ultimate success exemplifies how content analysis can illuminate a subject with empirical and systematic findings.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: AMERICAN POLITICS
Copyright
© 2005 American Political Science Association

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