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Readership Of News About Politics In The Minneapolis Star And Tribune, 1950-1960, William L. Hathaway
Readership Of News About Politics In The Minneapolis Star And Tribune, 1950-1960, William L. Hathaway
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
The management of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, since World War II. has commissioned yearly studies of the newspapers' readers to learn how much attention was paid to the newspapers' content. An exploratory study was conducted of the data from the surveys made between 1950 and 1960 to measure the general levels of attention paid to news about politics, and to examine the variation of attention over time. Readers' preferences among several kinds of political news content were also noted.
The Effect Of Perception On Reactions To Reapportionment, Truman David Wood
The Effect Of Perception On Reactions To Reapportionment, Truman David Wood
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
A port of the legislative reapportionment conflict in Minnesota was a product of distorted perceptions by political actors such as the Minnesota Form Bureau . The Bureau's reaction to the Governor's Commission on Legislative Reapportionment was o result of the impact of the Bureau's ideology on its perception of the political system. The resultant failure of the Form Bureau President to serve on the Governor's Commission denied that organization access to on important step in the decision-making process concerning legislative reapportionment.
Constitutional Change In A Long-Depressed Community: A Case Study Of Duluth, Minnesota, Daniel J. Elazar
Constitutional Change In A Long-Depressed Community: A Case Study Of Duluth, Minnesota, Daniel J. Elazar
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
Duluth, a "boom and bust" city with a marginal economy, has a unique position outside the mainstream of American life that adds a different dimension lo the understanding of community politics. Settlement patterns have contributed to the development of separate "business" and "labor" subcommunities that are substantially alienated from and hostile to one another and have rarely been able to cooperate in any civic endeavor. Operating within the framework of a political system caricaturing that of Minnesota as a whole, the two subcommunities reversed the pattern of local concern found in other cities; labor became the progressive force in local …