Faculty
Lance Bennett
Office: Gowen 115
(206) 543-4946
lbennett@u.washington.edu
(Ph.D., Yale), professor, works primarily in the area of media
and politics and has contributed to the literature of political
psychology, communication theory, and culture. He has published
two books on public opinion, including Public Opinion in American
Politics (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). He is also co-author of Reconstructing
Reality in the Courtroom; News: The Politics of Illusion, and The
Governing Crisis: Media, Money and Marketing in American Elections.
Recent research includes studies of how public policy debates are
structured in the U.S. and Sweden, and how the media affect the
foreign policy process, and why different groups are included and
excluded in news coverage of political issues. He has served as
chair of the Political Communication Section of the American Political
Science Association, and on editorial boards of major journals in
political science and communications. He teaches courses on Political
Communication, Qualitative Methodology and Media & Society. His
areas of interest include Political Communication (media and politics),
Political Psychology, and American Politics (public opinion and
political behavior.)
Personal web site: http://faculty.washington.edu/bennett
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