Two relatively recent books by prominent names in political communication attempt to consolidate theory around core ideas in our field: agenda-setting and framing. These are two books definitely worth owning as new and prospective scholars in political communication, and the Entman book at least is likely to be a seminal work in its influence, if it hasn't achieved that status already.
Two reviews published this year in Mass Communication & Society deal with these books, and are worth reading, especially the Pan review.
Also, I should mention that some students have found useful Katherine Kramer Walsh's book on political discussion, and a review by Gamson can be found in the latest issue of Public Opinion Quarterly.
Setting the Agenda: The News Media and Public Opinion (Paperback)
by Maxwell McCombs
Projections of Power : Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion) (Paperback)
by Robert M. Entman
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This is a shameless plug for my own review of the McCombs book that is forthcoming in the next issue of POQ.
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