CAPACITY, DIVERSITY, AND VOLATILITY OF THE PUBLIC AGENDA: TRENDS FROM 1954 TO 1994

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Title CAPACITY, DIVERSITY, AND VOLATILITY OF THE PUBLIC AGENDA: TRENDS FROM 1954 TO 1994

Author(s) MAXWELL MCCOMBS, JIAN-HUA ZHU, MAXWELL MCCOMBS is the Jesse H. Jones Centennial Chair in Communication at the University of Texas at Austin, and Jian-Hua Zhu is associate professor of Communication Sciences at the University of Connecticut. The authors would like to thank Marylin Potter of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research for providing the data and the editor and three anonymous reviewers for comments on the earlier versions of the article. The study was supported by a grant to Jian-Hua Zhu from the University of Connecticut Research Foundation (no. 440632). Correspondence should be addressed to Maxwell McCombs, Department of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712.

Identifiers Public Opinion Quarterly, volume 59, page 495

Copyright © 1995, the American Association for Public Opinion Research

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Title	CAPACITY, DIVERSITY, AND VOLATILITY OF THE PUBLIC AGENDA: TRENDS FROM 1954 TO 1994
Author(s)	MAXWELL MCCOMBS, JIAN-HUA ZHU, MAXWELL MCCOMBS is the Jesse H. Jones Centennial Chair in Communication at the University of Texas at Austin, and Jian-Hua Zhu is associate professor of Communication Sciences at the University of Connecticut. The authors would like to thank Marylin Potter of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research for providing the data and the editor and three anonymous reviewers for comments on the earlier versions of the article. The study was supported by a grant to Jian-Hua Zhu from the University of Connecticut Research Foundation (no. 440632). Correspondence should be addressed to Maxwell McCombs, Department of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712.
Identifiers	Public Opinion Quarterly, volume 59, page 495
Copyright	© 1995, the American Association for Public Opinion Research
Availability	Other sites: JSTOR [No subscription required for AAPOR members] *

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