Agenda-Tapping: Conceptualizing the Relationship Between News Coverage, Fundraising, and the First Amendment.

FUNDRAISING; GUN control in the United States; UNITED States. Constitution. 1st Amendment; CHARITABLE giving; POLITICAL campaigns; NONPROFIT organizations; MASS media

Agenda setting represents a promising framework for understanding charitable donation and special interest political contribution behavior. This article reports the results of a study investigating the link between the agenda-setting function of the press, nonprofit donations, and special interest political contributions. Using financial information from two nonprofit organizations associated with the issue of gun control/gun rights, this study found media mentions of gun control to be strong and significant predictors of donations to a gun control-oriented nonprofit and nonprofit contributions to political campaigns. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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