Journal articleSlavic 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 ...
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Journal articlePerspectives 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 ...
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Journal articleSlavic 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 ...
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Journal articlePolitical 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 ...
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Journal articleHarvard 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 ...
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Journal articleAmerican 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 ...
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Journal articleAmerican 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 ...
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Journal articleSlavic 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 ...
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Journal articleSlavic 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 ...
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Journal articlePublic 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 ...
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Journal articlePublic 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 ...
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