I've received word from Frank Baumgartner that the book is now available. Here's some of the October post announcing the book and its supporting website:
That's the title of a new book that is expected to be available at the end of the year. It's written by Frank R. Baumgartner, Suzanna De Boef, and Amber Boydstun. Professor Baumgartner has created a dynamic website to support the book, containing many links. I'd urge you to visit the site.
The book is available for
pre-ordering at this time from Amazon.com.Here's an excerpt from the site:
Since 2003 Frank Baumgartner and colleagues have been involved in a project tracing the changing politics and issue-definitions associated with the death penalty. The question is to determine the degree to which the new "innocence" frame is displacing the traditional "morality" frame relating to this issue. Important substantive issues about the future of the death penalty in America can be addressed as well as difficult methodological issues concerning how to study the links among issue-definition, public opinion, the media, and public policy.
With Suzanna De Boef, graduate student Amber Boydstun, and occasional other collaborators on different parts of the project, Baumgartner and others have addressed a number of questions relating to these issues. The research has focused on substantive issues relating to how the media has covered the death penalty (with particular reference to the use of various frames), public opinion (in particular the cognitive process by which individuals react to the "moral" and the "innocence" frame, based on experiments), and the history of the issue since 1960.
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