Q. Can the media influence election outcomes? (PPE 2016)
Your Reading List for this Week
Chong, Dennis, and James N Druckman. 2007. “Framing Public Opinion in Competitive Democracies.” American Political Science Review 101(4): 637–55.
Druckman, James N, Matthew S Levendusky, and Audrey McLain. 2017. “No Need to Watch: How the Effects of Partisan Media Can Spread via Interpersonal Discussions.” American Journal of Political Science 62(1): 99–112.
Hopkins, Daniel J, Eunji Kim, and Soojong Kim. 2017. “Does Newspaper Coverage Influence or Reflect Public Perceptions of the Economy?.” Research and politics 4(4)
Iyengar, S., & Reeves, R. (1997). Do the media govern? : Politicians, voters, and reporters in America. Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London: Sage Publications. Chapters 26 and 27.
Lenz, Gabriel S, and Chappell Lawson. 2007. “Looking the part: Television leads less informed citizens to vote based on candidates' appearance.” American Journal of Political Science 55(3): 574–589.
Levendusky, Matthew S. 2013. “Why Do Partisan Media Polarize Viewers?.” American Journal of Political Science 57(3): 611–23.
Recommended readings
Zaller, John (1992). The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Flynn, D J, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. 2017. “The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics.” Political Psychology 38(2): 127–50.