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priming, 75, 106 United States Constitution, 21, 26, 35, 42,
Progressive Era, 69, 71, 72, 76, 198 106
psychological approach to political United States Department of Agriculture,
learning, 205–210, 217, 224, 230–231, 66; Forest Service, 66, 134, 146
249 United States Department of Commerce,
public sphere, 1, 7 66
United States Department of Education,
radio, 75, 78–84, 150, 186, 203, 211, 159
213 United States Department of Energy, 134
railroads, 46, 59–60, 62, 65, 94 United States Department of Labor, 66
rational choice theory, 14, 24, 25, United States Department of State, 59
200–202, 205–207, 241 United States Department of
Reagan, Ronald, 134–135, 162 Transportation, 134
Reed, Lynn, 181, 187, 189 United States Department of the
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 79, 80 Treasury, 59, 127
Roosevelt, Theodore, 71 United States Navy, 59, 116–117
United States Postal Service, 19, 47,
Save Our Environment Coalition, 50–55, 60, 66, 74, 116, 231
147–149
Second Amendment, 161, 163, 164, Vance, Stephanie, 195
169 Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender
Second Amendment Sisters, 169–171 Accountability and Rehabilitation
Seventeenth Amendment, 67 Act of 1999 (Juvenile Crime bill), 172,
Shakespeare, William, 9 173
Sierra Club, 133–136, 140, 147 Votenet, 174, 195
voter turnout: Australian ballot and, 67,
Taft, William H., 73 76; cost of information and, 200,
Telecommunications Act of 1996, 201–202; decline of, 22, 24; historical
150–151, 156 changes in, 198–200; information
telegraph, 46, 60–62, 77, 94 technology and, 200, 204; rationalized
telephone, 28, 29, 46, 74, 75, 90, 108, 116, citizen and, 199; surveys and 210, 224,
150, 179, 194, 196, 212, 213 228
television, 1, 20, 28–30, 61, 75–77, 80–86, voting, 198, 199, 200, 227
90–91, 101–102, 106, 150, 176–177,
181, 186–188, 199, 204, 207–208, 211, Weber, Max, 17, 64, 94–99, 102, 109, 196,
217–219, 231, 248 241, 247
Time magazine, 155 Wilderness Society, 135, 138
Tocqueville, Alexander de, 16–17, 64, 90, Wilson, Woodrow, 71
92–94, 98, 104, 116, 139, 238 World Trade Organization, 117
Truman, Harry S, 80 World War II, 79, 96, 249
Twenty-second Amendment, 198 World Wildlife Fund, 133, 141, 144–147,
Tyler, John, 46 191

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