Matthew L Baum

The Neuroethics of Biomarkers: What the Development of Bioprediction Means for Moral Responsibility, Justice, and the Nature of Mental Disorder (Oxford Series in Neuroscience, Law, and Philosophy)

Neuroscientists are mining nucleic acids, blood, saliva, and brain images in hopes of uncovering biomarkers that could help estimate risk of brain disorders like psychosis and dementia; though the science of bioprediction is young, its prospects are unearthing controversy about how bioprediction sho...

Soft News Goes to War: Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy in the New Media Age

The American public has consistently declared itself less concerned with foreign affairs in the post-Cold War era, even after 9/11, than at any time since World War II. How can it be, then, that public attentiveness to U.S. foreign policy crises has increased? This book represents the first syste...

War Stories: The Causes and Consequences of Public Views of War

How does the American public formulate its opinions about U.S. foreign policy and military engagement abroad? War Stories argues that the media systematically distort the information the public vitally needs to determine whether to support such initiatives, for reasons having more to do with journal...

The Neuroethics of Biomarkers: What the Development of Bioprediction Means for Moral Responsibility, Justice, and the Nature of Mental Disorder (Oxford Series in Neuroscience, Law, and Philosophy)

Neuroscientists are mining nucleic acids, blood, saliva, and brain images in hopes of uncovering biomarkers that could help estimate risk of brain disorders like psychosis and dementia; though the science of bioprediction is young, its prospects are unearthing controversy about how bioprediction sho...

War and Democratic Constraint: How the Public Influences Foreign Policy

Why do some democracies reflect their citizens' foreign policy preferences better than others? What roles do the media, political parties, and the electoral system play in a democracy's decision to join or avoid a war? War and Democratic Constraint shows that the key to how a government determines f...

Soft News Goes to War: Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy in the New Media Age by Matthew A. Baum (2005-11-27)

[(War Stories: The Causes and Consequences of Public Views of War)] [Author: Matthew A. Baum] published on (December, 2009)

Soft News Goes to War: Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy in the New Media Age

The American public has consistently declared itself less concerned with foreign affairs in the post-Cold War era, even after 9/11, than at any time since World War II. How can it be, then, that public attentiveness to U.S. foreign policy crises has increased? This book represents the first systemat...

Soft News Goes to War: Public Opinion And American Foreign Policy in the New Media Age

Soft News Goes to War: Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy in the New Media Age