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382 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
Framing and symbol manipulation by elites are sometimes discussed in conspiratorial tones, as if, in a healthy democratic polity, they would not occur. But from my perspective they are, whether healthy or not, unavoidable. For, given a public that has no fixed attitude toward what it wants done, but simply a range of only partially consistent considerations, someone has got to play the role of crystallizing issues in a way that can lead to action.