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Ladd, Jonathan Christopher Cartmell.

Attitudes toward the news media and political competition in America.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Attitudes toward the news media and political competition in America.
Author:	Ladd, Jonathan Christopher Cartmell.
Description:	256 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Larry M. Bartels.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4169.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3198044
ISBN:	9780542419898

Attitudes toward the news media and political competition in America.
Ladd, Jonathan Christopher Cartmell.

Attitudes toward the news media and political competition in America. - 256 p.

Adviser: Larry M. Bartels.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2006.

As an institution, the news media are held in low regard by the American public. Fewer people express confidence in the press than in almost any other societal institution. This dissertation considers two main questions. First, what shapes the public's attitudes toward the news media as an institution? Second, what are the consequences of those attitudes for how the public acquires information about national conditions and uses that information to reward and punish political leaders? I find evidence that negative public attitudes toward the institutional news media are caused by both elite criticism of the media and the style of news coverage. These opinions about the media then influence how individuals acquire political information and form electoral preferences. Those with more negative attitudes are more resistant to new information about the state of the nation, instead relying more on their partisan predispositions. These more polarized beliefs lead to voting preferences that also more strongly reflect party attachments. Despite these (arguably) negative consequences, increasing public trust in the media is difficult. Using a formal model, I show how political parties' desire to increase their public support, the tendency of their rhetoric to influence only their own identifiers and the tendency of negative attitudes toward the press to increase partisan preferences create an incentive for party elites to criticize the media. Given that one cause of negative public attitudes toward the press is the result of competition among political parties, negative attitudes toward the press are partially a natural result of a free and competitive political system.

ISBN: 9780542419898Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

Attitudes toward the news media and political competition in America.
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