Oxford University Press

This is the first study to provide conclusive evidence that the way the American news and broadcast media currently cover political issues and events directly causes increased voter cynicism and non-participation. In a path-breaking study, Jamieson and Cappella examine how the media cover both political campaigns and significant legislation (the...

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The Role of Party Leaders in ElectionsCampaign organizers and the media appear to agree that voters' perceptions of        party leaders have an important impact in elections.Platform or Personality?        examines voters' evaluations of party leaders in elections around the world and        finds that leaders have an unmistakeable and consistent...

In everyday life, and particularly in the modern workplace, information technology and automation increasingly mediate, augment, and sometimes even interfere with how humans interact with their environment. How to understand and support cognition in human-technology interaction is both a practically and socially relevant problem. The chapters in...

What does reality encompass? Is it exclusively physical, or does it include mental        and 'abstract' aspects? What are the elements of being, reality's raw materials?        John Heil offers stimulating answers to these questions framed in terms of a        comprehensive metaphysics of substances and properties inspired by Descartes,...

In Defiance of Time contends that the antiquarian project, integral to early modern literary and intellectual culture, depended on the antiquaries' capacity to restore - in their imagination at least - the fragments of the past. It offers original readings of important authors such as Leland, Stow, Spenser, Camden, Drayton, and Selden....