The 106th Congress was better than five of the last eight Congresses on four measures of civility – name calling, the use of the word lie, vulgarity and pejoratives for speech – according to a new study released by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the third bipartisan House Retreat at the Greenbrier in White
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Issue Advertising in the 1999-2000 Election Cycle
Annenberg Public Policy Center Tracks over $509 Million in Reported Expenditures on Issue Advocacy Almost $248 million was spent on TV ads in the top 75 media markets after Super Tuesday, $85 million addressed health care issues. Download the report Issue Advertising in the 1999-2000 Election Cycle.
Are Voluntary Standards Working? Candidate Discourse on Network Evening News Programs
Only one in four of the network stories aired before the primaries and before the general election were issue-oriented, and the networks averaged a little over a minute per night per network in candidate-centered discourse. Researchers examined network television coverage of the political campaigns for the 30 days preceding the Super Tuesday primaries and the
While the Public Learned Specifics About Bush and Gore After Their Conventions, One out of Two Still Not Ready to Vote
Men More Likely than Women to Know Policy Positions and More Likely to Feel they Can Make an Informed Choice for President In this analysis the Annenberg Public Policy Center examines why only one in two Americans (49 percent) feels she or he has learned enough about Al Gore and George W. Bush to make
Convention Increases America’s Appetite for News About the Presidential Race
Low Ratings Do Not Equate to Lack of Interest in Presidential Campaign Despite the fact that over half of all Americans watched only a few minutes or less of the Republican National Convention, the convention increased interest in network and cable news coverage of the presidential campaign and awareness of George W. Bush’s policy positions,
Americans Still Unfamiliar With Most of Bush and Gore’s Policy Positions and Feel Ill-Equipped to Make Choice Between Them
Fifty-five percent of Americans feel they don’t yet know enough about the candidates in the presidential election to make an informed choice, and most don’t know where George W. Bush and Al Gore stand on major policy issues according to new research from the Annenberg 2000 survey released today by the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
Attitudes and Beliefs About Domestic Violence: The Results of a Survey of Adults in Philadelphia
A survey of Philadelphia adults was conducted to identify the attitudes and beliefs underlying actions in response to domestic violence.
The Internet and the Family
This groundbreaking study examines parental attitudes and activities around the Web.
Public Policy for a Networked Nation – Dec 1999
This report examines how the Telecommunications Act of 1996 created a highly pro-competitive strategic direction for public policy-makers that federal, state regulators, and state legislators appear to be following.
Final Report: Evaluation of the Philadelphia: Let’s Stop Domestic Violence! Project
This report presents both a description and an evaluation of the Philadelphia: Let’s Stop Domestic Violence! project.