It s not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can make or break a politician s career. Yet very little has been said in political science about the elusive element of tone. In "Political Tone," Roderick P. Hart, Jay P. Childers, and Colene J. Lind analyze a range of texts from speeches and debates to advertising and print and broadcast campaign coverage using a sophisticated computer program, DICTION, that parses their content for semantic features like realism, commonality, and certainty, as...
It s not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can make...
It has become a common complaint among academics and community leaders that citizens today are not what they used to be. Nowhere is this decline seen to be more troubling than when the focus is on young Americans. Compared to the youth of past generations, today's young adults, so the story goes, spend too much time watching television, playing video games, and surfing the Internet. As a result, American democracy is in trouble.
The Evolving Citizen challenges this decline thesis and argues instead that democratic engagement has not gotten worse--it has simply changed....
It has become a common complaint among academics and community leaders that citizens today are not what they used to be. Nowhere is this decline se...
