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Ellen Mickiewicz

Ellen Mickiewicz

James R. Shepley Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
ellen.mickiewicz@duke.edu
205 Tadley Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
205 Tadley Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Selected Publications

Elite Russian Students’ Internet Strategies: Trust, Persuasion, and Rejection

Chapter · January 1, 2020 Trust, an essential component of political effectiveness within a country and the international system, always involves risk. Trust introduces benefits such as reducing transactional costs but also carries a risk of self-disclosure. Data from focus groups ... Full text Cite

Critical Review

Journal Article Slavic Review · 2017 In two important books, Runet (the Russian internet) is the central character, an essential component of the politics of commerce, economic policy, and strategic thinking. The first, written by an American specialist on information policy and the i ... Full text Cite

Not ordinary Russians

Journal Article Foreign Affairs · May 1, 2015 Cite

No Illusions The Voices of Russia's Future Leaders

Book · 2014 No Illusions: The Voices of Russia's Future Leaders provides an engaging, intimate, and unprecedented window into the mindsets of the next generation of leaders in Russian politics, business, and economics. In this book, one hundred and eight students in R ... Cite

Political Journalism

Other The Encyclopedia of Political Science · 2010 Cite

Television

Other Encyclopedia of Communism · 2010 Cite

When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina. By W. Lance Bennett, Regina G. Lawrence, and Steven Livingston. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 278p. $22.50 cloth, $15.00 paper.

Journal Article Perspectives on Politics · December 2009 It takes a vacuum for the American mainstream press to seize an opening to perform its vital role. And it takes a crack in what the authors portray as an edifice of official secrecy, lying, intimidation, and retribution for the mainstream press to ... Full text Cite

Television, Power, and the Public in Russia

Book · March 20, 2008 The Russian media are widely seen to be increasingly controlled by the government. Leaders buy up opposing television channels and pour money in as fast as it hemorrhages out. As a result, TV news has become narrower in scope and in the range of viewpoints ... Cite

The election news story on Russian television: A world apart from viewers

Journal Article Slavic Review · March 1, 2006 Winning elections is so vital for Russian leaders that competing viewpoints on national television news channels have been scotched, together with the channels that broadcast them. This study examines the other side of the screen: how participants in focus ... Full text Cite

Media and power in post-Soviet Russia

Other POLITICAL COMMUNICATION · 2006 Full text Link to item Cite

Excavating concealed tradeoffs: How Russians watch the news

Journal Article Political Communication · July 1, 2005 Citizens in democracies are expected to make better decisions if they understand policy tradeoffs. However, politicians rarely have incentives to communicate them; citizens are uncomfortable choosing among valued outcomes; and devising a common metric is d ... Full text Cite

Leadership and the Media: The European Challenge

Conference 3rd International Conference Proceedings · 2005 Cite

Piracy, policy, and Russia's emerging media market

Journal Article Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics · December 1, 2001 The birth of a media market in Russia affords a unique opportunity to study the collision of international and national norms and practices. The refraction of globalization - involving, in this case, copyright protection and the program market -through loc ... Full text Cite

Democracy and the Media: A Comparative Perspective

Book · 2000 This book presents a unique perspective on the relationship between politics and the media in different kinds of political regimes in Europe, North America and Asia. These essays show that media effects on politics are the product of interactions among med ... Cite

Changing Channels: Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia

Book · 1999 During the tumultuous 1990s, as Russia struggled to shed the trappings of the Soviet empire, television viewing emerged as an enormous influence on Russian life. The number of viewers who routinely watch the nightly news in Russia matches the number of Ame ... Cite

Russian Television News: Owners and the Public

Journal Article Neiman Reports · 1999 Cite

Television/Radio News and Minorities

Book · 1994 Policy guidebook ... Cite

Television and Political Change

Other Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union · 1994 Cite

FROM GLASNOST TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH - BENN,DW

Journal Article EUROPE-ASIA STUDIES · January 1, 1993 Link to item Cite

Redefining the Political System of the USSR: Mass Support for Political Change

Journal Article American Political Science Review · December 1992 Using data from a national public opinion survey carried out in the Soviet Union during November and December 1989, we explore two attitudes relevant to the revolutionary changes there: (1) attitudes toward change and political democracy and (2) attitudes ... Cite

Redefining the Political System of the USSR: Mass Support for Political Change

Journal Article American Political Science Review · December 1992 Using data from a national public opinion survey carried out in the Soviet Union during November and December 1989, we explore two attitudes relevant to the revolutionary changes there: (1) attitudes toward change and political democracy and (2) at ... Full text Cite

Television and Elections

Book · 1992 Policy guidebook ... Cite

Images of America

Chapter · 1991 Cite

Communication, Mobilization, and Reform

Journal Article Sotsiologicheskie Issledovania (Sociological Research) · 1991 Cite

Ethnicity and Soviet Television News

Journal Article Journal of Communication · January 1, 1991 Full text Cite

PERSUASION AND SOVIET POLITICS - BENN,DW

Journal Article SOVIET STUDIES · January 1, 1991 Link to item Cite

Public Opinion and Soviet Nationalities

Journal Article Soviet Nationalities · 1990 Cite

La TV secondo Gorbaciov

Journal Article Relazioni Internazionali · December 1989 Cite

Soviet Union: The Asymmetrical Mirror

Journal Article Gannett Center Journal · October 1989 Cite

Mobilization and Reform: Political Communication Policy Under Gorbachev

Journal Article PS: Political Science & Politics · January 1, 1989 Full text Cite

Changes in the Media Under Gorbachev: The Case of Television

Journal Article Journal of Communist Studies · January 1, 1988 Full text Cite

Mass Culture, Change, and Mobilization: The Media Revolution

Journal Article Soviet and Post Soviet Review · January 1, 1988 Full text Cite

SOVIET-TELEVISION AND AMERICA

Journal Article TELEVISION QUARTERLY · 1988 Cite

Soviet and American News: Week of Intensive Interaction

Journal Article Slavic Review · 1987 In 1940, there were only 400 television sets in the Soviet Union. By 1950, there were 10,000; a decade later, some 4.8 million. Then in the five years between 1965 and 1970, the availability of television sets more than doubled, and by 1976, Soviet ... Full text Cite

International Security and Arms Control

Book · 1986 International Security and Arms Control examines the impact of arms control and nuclear strategy issues on the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. Based on a conference held at Emory University, this book's contributors include for ... Cite

International Security and Arms Control

Book · 1986 International Security and Arms Control examines the impact of arms control and nuclear strategy issues on the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. Based on a conference held at Emory University, this book's contributors include for ... Cite

Soviet and American Television: A Comparison of News Coverage

Journal Article Nieman Reports · December 1985 Cite

Dezinfomatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy, by Roy Godson and Richard H. Shultz

Journal Article Political Science Quarterly · December 1, 1984 Full text Cite

The Functions of Communications Officials in the USSR: A Biographical Study

Journal Article Slavic Review · 1984 This study analyzes the biographies of a number of Soviet communications officials in order to address some fundamental and increasingly important questions about the communications process and about prospects for responding to the dilemmas that re ... Full text Cite

Feedback, Surueys, and Souiet Communication Theory

Journal Article Journal of Communication · January 1, 1983 Full text Cite

Media and the Russian Public: Watching Television in Russia

Journal Article Annual of the International Council of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences · 1981 Cite

Commentary on Marxism and the Work of Bertram Wolfe

Journal Article Studies in Soviet Thought · December 1979 Cite

Comments

Journal Article Studies in Soviet Thought · December 1, 1979 Full text Cite

Evaluation studies of soviet party members

Journal Article Public Opinion Quarterly · January 1, 1976 Recent studies by academic sociologists in the Soviet Union indicate a commitment to the expansion of information and development of evaluative studies of the behavior of Communist Party members. In particular, the present article analyzes patterns of news ... Full text Cite

Policy applications of public opinion research in the Soviet Union

Journal Article Public Opinion Quarterly · January 1, 1972 This article describes recent developments in public opinion research in the Soviet Union. Two kinds of studies are reviewed: readership surveys carried out for leading Soviet newspapers and magazines by sociologists in the Academy of Sciences, and Party-s ... Full text Cite

The Modernization of Party Propaganda in the U.S.S.R.

Journal Article Slavic Review · June 1971 Cite

The Status of Soviet Women (review essay)

Journal Article Problems of Communism · 1971 Cite

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Journal Article American Political Science Review · March 1969 Cite

Communications

Journal Article American Political Science Review · January 1, 1969 Full text Cite