Why Americans hate welfare : race, media, and the politics of antipoverty policy /
"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 p...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Studies in communication, media, and public opinion
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Table of Contents:
- The American welfare state: public opinion and public policy
- Individualism, self-interest, and opposition to welfare
- Racial attitudes, the undeserving poor, and opposition to welfare
- Assessing alternative explanations: statistical models of welfare attitudes
- The news media and the racialization of poverty
- Media distortions: causes and consequences
- Racial stereotypes and public responses to poverty
- Beyond the attitude survey: public opinion and antipoverty policy
- The politics of the American welfare state.