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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Political Persuasion, Propaganda, and Media Effects | |
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| Persuasion Variables | |
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| Media Effects | |
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| Heresthetic | |
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| The Construction of Political Meaning | |
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| Political Talk Radio and Its Most Prominent Practitioner | |
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| Background | |
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| Format | |
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| Media Portrayal | |
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| Audience | |
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| Content | |
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| Limbaugh | |
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| Summary | |
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| Toward a Value Heresthetic Model of Political Persuasion | |
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| A Model of Value Heresthetic, Rhetoric, and Persuasion Through Talk Radio | |
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| Experimental Analysis | |
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| Recruitment and Subject Profile | |
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| Specific Procedures | |
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| The Stimuli | |
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| Specific Hypotheses | |
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| Selection Bias? | |
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| Results | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Talk Radio, Public Opinion, and Vote Choice: The "Limbaugh Effect," 1994-96 | |
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| Methodological Issues | |
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| Limbaugh and Public Opinion--Cross-sectional Evidence | |
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| Two-Stage Least-Squares Analysis | |
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| Limbaugh and Opinion Change--Panel Evidence | |
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| Support for Dole | |
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| Vote Choice | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Talk Radio, Opinion Leadership, and Presidential Nominations: Evidence from the 2000 Republican Primary Battle | |
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| Vote Choice in Primary Elections | |
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| The Struggle for the 2000 Republican Presidential Nomination | |
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| Research Design and Methodology | |
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| The Sample | |
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| Dependent Variables | |
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| Independent and Control Variables | |
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| Findings | |
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| Sophistication | |
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| Discussion | |
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| The Talk Radio Community: Nontraditional Social Networks and Political Participation | |
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| The Efficacy-Priming Experiment | |
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| Experimental Results | |
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| Constructing Reality from Pseudosocial Networks | |
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| Measurement | |
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| Results: Political Efficacy | |
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| Results: Participation | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Information, Misinformation, and Political Talk Radio | |
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| Research Design and Methodology | |
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| The Sample | |
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| Measurement of Dependent Variables | |
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| Intercorrelations and Model Specification | |
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| Findings | |
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| Political Talk Radio and Information | |
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| Political Talk Radio and Misinformation | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Understanding Political Persuasion | |
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| Deliberative Democracy | |
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| Media Effects | |
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| The Limbaugh Message | |
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| Excerpts from the Rhetoric Stimulus | |
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| Excerpts from the Value Heresthetic Stimulus | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |