Why Americans hate welfare : race, media, and the politics of antipoverty policy / Martin Gilens.
Why Americans hate welfare : race, media, and the politics of antipoverty policy / Martin Gilens.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
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1999.
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T0383291
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xii, 296 p. ; 24 cm.
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1. The American Welfare State: Public Opinion and Public Policy -- 2. Individualism, Self-Interest, and Opposition to Welfare -- 3. Racial Attitudes, the Undeserving Poor, and Opposition to Welfare -- 4. Assessing Alternative Explanations: Statistical Models of Welfare Attitudes -- 5. The News Media...
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
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Illinois
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1999.
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Drawing on surveys of public attitudes and analyses of more than forty years of television and newsmagazine stories on poverty, Gilens demonstrates how public opposition to welfare is fed by a potent combination of racial stereotypes and misinformation about the true nature of America's poor. But white Americans don't oppose welfare simply because...
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Why Americans hate welfare : race, media, and the politics of antipoverty policy / Martin Gilens.
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Studies in communication, media, and public opinion.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-279) and index.
Transferred from N070.4493616/1.
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0226293645 :
9780226293646 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226293645 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226293646 :
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070.4493616
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