Mutz’s Book Recognized as Best in Political Communications
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Professor Diana Mutz has received the American Political Science Association’s 2004 Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award for the best book on political communications in the last 10 years.
Her book, Impersonal Influence, How Perceptions of Mass Collectives Affect Political Attitudes, explores how political attitudes and behaviors can be influenced by information about distant and impersonal others. The book, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 1998, was also awarded the Robert Lane Prize for the best book in political psychology by the American Political Science Association in 1999.
Professor Mutz, who is the Samuel A. Stouffer Professor in Political Science and Communication, holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Stanford University and a B.S. from Northwestern University. She directs the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics at the Annenberg Public Policy Center. A scholar of mass media and political behavior, Professor Mutz specializes in public opinion, research design, and political psychology.
The American Political Science Association is the leading professional organization for the study of political science with more than 15,000 members in over 80 countries.