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Publication details [#49238]
Domke, David, Kevin Coe, Erica S. Graham, Sue Lockett John and Ted Coopman. 2006. Going Public as Political Strategy: The Bush Administration, an Echoing Press, and Passage of the Patriot Act. Political Communication 23 (3) : 291–312. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This study suggests that Bush and Ashcroft's communications, combined with a press that mainly echoed the presidential administration's messages, constituted an environment in which Congress felt pressured to pass the Patriot Act quite quickly.