PREDICTION OF POLITICAL ACTION BY MEANS OF PROPAGANDA ANALYSIS

In: Public opinion quarterly: journal of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 334-345

Abstract

During WWII a group of content analysts in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made inferences about Nazi propaganda strategy & its underlying policy calculations from a close inspection of German radio & press communications. After the war the writer matched the FCC inferences against historical data & attempted to reconstruct & codify methods of inference which had been successfully applied. AA.-IPSA.