Political Leadership
and Media Democracy

Internet Resources

American Studies Center

ASC 26

Oct. 21-28, 2000

Selected Websites

Searchable Newspaper Archives
Links to the searchable archive pages of individual U.S. newspapers as well as archival newspaper collections.

American Museum of the Moving Image
This site includes The Living Room Candidate: selected commercials from the presidential campaigns of 1952 to the present. (The link on this page is optimal for viewing from Salzburg Seminar computer lab. For other locations, begin again at The Living Room Candidate and select the video format appropriate for your computer.

A Brief History of the Internet
A brief narrative text, including links.

Dissect-An-Ad, an exercise developed by the Center for Media Literacy
A teaching exercise for developing skills necessary for the critical analysis of campaign ads.

Elections 2000 - Ad Watch
The Washington Post presents video and text of campaign ads and provides commentary on their accuracy

.FreedomChannel.com
" A free, nonpartisan site that introduces video-on-demand into American politics. This site offers voters and the media the first-ever one-stop shop for the video views of candidates and issue groups."

The Media History Project
A site created by and for media historians providing access to internet information on the development of media (print, radio, television, etc.) and its relation to culture in various forms (politics, economics, etc.).

The Thirty Second Candidate: Tricks of the Trade
An interactive site allowing you to alter a television commercial, slanting it in favor or against the political candidate.

Politics and the Media

C-SPAN.org - Political Affairs on the Web
Live coverage of "U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated and decided--all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points of view."

AllPolitics (CNN.com - allpolitics.com with TIME)
CNN's focus on the 2000 elections. Includes live and archived video and audio.

Politics1.com
"A non-partisan public service to promote fully informed decision-making by the American electorate."

Presidents of the United States
"Background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events...on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites.."

Project Vote Smart
A non-partisan, non-profit effort to provide factual information on candidates and elected officials on such matters as voting records, campaign issue positions, campaign contributions, etc.

USA Elections 2000

BuchananReform.com
Bush/Cheney
Gore/Liebermann 2000
Nader 2000
Democratic National Committee
Green Parties Worldwide (links to Nader)
Reform Party
Republican National Committee

Other parties and presidential candidates:
Political Science Resources (click on Political Parties)
Presidency 2000

Public Opinion

Center for Communication and Civic Engagement
The "primary focus is to understand how new information technologies can supplement more traditional forms of communication to facilitate new forms of civic engagement." Lance Bennett, Director.

The Gallup Organization
One of the nation's leading pollsters shares information from opinion polls, special reports, trends, and social audits dating from 1997. Also shares information about poll techniques.

Public Agenda Online. The Inside Source for Public Opinion and Policy Analysis
"Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1975 by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance."

Lecture Links

Sites featured in Lance Bennett's lecture
FOXNews.com
Ananova
Rocky Mountain Media Watch. 98 Election Survey
The Pew Research Center. Public Attentiveness To News Stories: 1986 - 2000
Center for Communication and Civic Engagement

Dynamics of Public Opinion

Sites consulted by the Public Opinion working group
Voter.com
Pollingreport.com
Vanishing Voter
You Are Where You Live

Campaign Ads

Sites recommended by Bruce Gronbeck
The Living Room Candidate
AdCritic.com

ASC 26 Faculty and Fellows

Erik Åsard. Personal website, The Swedish Institute for North American Studies
Siegfried Beer. Karl-Franzen-Universitat Graz
Lance Bennett. Political Communication Resources , Center for Communication & Civic Engagement
Ken Cosgrove. Personal Website
Philip Davies. British Association for American Studies
Robert Garson. David Bruce Centre for American Studies
Bruce Gronbeck. Personal Website
Jac Geurts. American Studies Nijmegen
Doulatbek Khidirbekughli. Personal Website
Robert W. Leweke. Pikeville College, Kentucky
Jimmy Magro. Malta Labour Party Website
Neilson Ilan Mersat. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
Sara Penhale. Personal Website
Tomasz Pludowski. Uniwersytet Lodzki
C. A. van Minnen. Roosevelt Study Center
Allan M. Winkler. Personal Website