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Contributors

at Harvard University, Cambridge, and at the Center for German and
European Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Her re-
search interests center on comparative analyses of political communica-
tion and on media and the public sphere. She published several books
including Politische Kommunikationskultur (2003) and numerous arti-
cles and book chapters including “Political Communication Culture in
the United States and Germany” (in vol. 6 (1), 2001, of Press/Politics) and
“Government News Management” (in The Politics of News: The News of
Politics,edited by D. Graber et al., 1998).

PatrickR¨ ossler is Professor of Communication Science at the University
of Erfurt, Germany, and serves as representative of the ICA in Germany.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Hohenheim, Germany,
and was assistant professor in the Department of Communication at
the University of Munich. His research interests concern political com-
munication, media effects, media contents, and new media technol-
ogy. He has published several books including Agenda-Setting (1997),
Online-Kommunikation (1998, ed.), and Theoretische Perspektiven der
Rezeptionsforschung (2001, edited with U. Hasebrink and M. J¨ ackel) and
numerous journal articles in, among others, Journal of Communication,
International Journal of Public Opinion Research, and Communication
Research.

R¨ udiger Schmitt-Beck is Professor of Politics and Political Communi-
cation at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His research inter-
ests center on comparative analyses of political communication, political
participation, political culture, and election campaigns. His publications
include Do Political Campaigns Matter? Campaign Effects in Elections and
Referendums (2002, with D. M. Farrell), Politische Kommunikation und
W¨ahlerverhalten.EininternationalerVergleich(2002),andMassCommu-
nication,PersonalCommunicationandVoteChoice–TheFilterHypothesis
of Media Influence in Comparative Perspective (in vol. 33, 2003, of British
Journal of Political Science).

Robert L. Stevenson is Kenan Professor of Journalism at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned a Ph.D. from the University
of Washington in 1975, where his academic adviser was Alex S. Edelstein.
Since joining the University of North Carolina in 1975, he has been a
Fulbright Senior Scholar in Mainz, Eric Voegelin Professor in Munich,
German Academic Exchange Service Visiting Professor in Dresden, and

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