In-Your-Face Politics: The Consequences of Uncivil Media

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Americans are disgusted with watching politicians screaming and yelling at one another on television. But does all the noise really make a difference? Drawing on numerous studies, Diana Mutz provides the first comprehensive look at the consequences of in-your-face politics. Her book contradicts the conventional wisdom by documenting both the benefi

Diana C. Mutz is the Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where she serves as director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics at the Annenberg Public Policy Center. Her books include Population-Based Survey Experiments (Princeton), Hearing the Other Side, and Impersonal Influence.

Winner of the 2016 David O. Sears Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology Finalist for the 2015 Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism and Mass Communication Research Award One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 "With ample humor and sufficient exposition for a lay audience, she conducts and analyzes a series of experiments carefully crafted to study how extreme close-ups and uncivil behavior in political TV affect the public discourse... An approachable yet scientifically rigorous look at what passes for political discourse in America."--Kirkus "[Mutz's] lively and lucid book sheds light on the relationship between political programming and public engagement."--- Glenn Altschuler, Huffington Post "Mutz offers an engagingly readable, data-rich work on mediated politics of a particular kind... In-Your-Face Politics is strongly recommended for college and university libraries."--Choice "This book is likely to join Mutz's previous work as an indispensable contribution to the political communication and psychology literatures... It is probably a rare thing to call an academic text entertaining, but Mutz has been among my favorite scholars to read, and this book was no exception. Balancing thoroughness with accessibility, the writing will satisfy serious academics while appealing to a more general audience. The book should serve as a model for anyone who wants to do good political science and write about it in a clear and personable manner."--Bryan T. Gervais, Public Opinion Quarterly "In In-Your-Face Politics, Diana C. Mutz's innovative approach to a controversial topic has produced a variety of fascinating insights... An exciting and impressive addition to the political television literature. Although many have ranted about political television, Professor Mutz generated the elusive evidence required to elevate our conversation. The result is a book that should be read by all serious students of political television."--Craig Allen Smith, Congress & the Presidency