Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability

Arnold, R. Douglas

doi:10.1515/9781400849581

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“…Fica claro, desse modo, que as empresas jornalísticas, ao conferirem visibilidade a determinados atores do campo político, acabam por influenciar a construção da imagem -e da credibilidade -daqueles que exercem papel representativo (Cook, 2005;Hahn, Lee e Lee, 2015;Sodré, 2009;Van Dalen, 2015;Arnold, 2004).…”

Section: Opinião Pública Mídia E Democraciaunclassified

O que significa “Opinião Pública”? Um estudo sobre os diferentes sentidos do termo nos editoriais do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo

Marques

Mont'Alverne

Kniess

et al. 2017

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Section: Opinião Pública Mídia E Democraciaunclassified

O que significa “Opinião Pública”? Um estudo sobre os diferentes sentidos do termo nos editoriais do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo

Marques

Mont'Alverne

Kniess

et al. 2017

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“…One potential threat that elected officials may be concerned about is critical media coverage. Studies have found that coverage levels of politicians vary widely (Arnold 2004;Campante and Do 2013) and that those differences in coverage can have significant consequences for the incumbency advantage in elections (Prior 2006;Schulhofer-Wohl and Garrido 2009;Gentzkow, Shapiro, and Sinkinson 2011), legislator performance in office (Snyder and Strömberg 2010), and possibly even state-level patterns of corruption (Campante and Do 2013). Fact-checking thus has the potential to create career risks for politicians by generating negative coverage for politicians that could damage their reputation and credibility.…”

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The Effect of Fact‐Checking on Elites: A Field Experiment on U.S. State Legislators

Nyhan

Reifler

2014

American J Political Sci

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Does external monitoring improve democratic performance? Fact-checking has come to play an increasingly important role in political coverage in the United States, but research suggests it may be ineffective at reducing public misperceptions about controversial issues. However, fact-checking might instead help improve political discourse by increasing the reputational costs or risks of spreading misinformation for political elites. To evaluate this deterrent hypothesis, we conducted a field experiment in nine U.S. states in which a randomly assigned group of state legislators were sent a series of letters about the risks to their reputation and electoral security if they are caught making questionable statements. The legislators who were sent these letters were substantially less likely to receive a negative fact-checking rating or to have their accuracy questioned publicly, suggesting that the threat posed by fact-checking can reduce inaccuracy in statements made by political elites.Funding support was provided by the Democracy Fund and New America Foundation. We thank Kevin Esterling, Tom Glaisyer, Michael Herron, Donald P. Green, and audiences at Duke University and Dartmouth College for helpful comments. We are also grateful to Eric Yang and Eli Derrow for excellent research assistance.

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“…While some Americans have experience dealing with their own congressional representatives (see Cain, Ferejohn, & Fiorina, 1987;Fenno, 1978;Mayhew, 1974), their impressions of the performance of the membership as a whole as well as the institution are grounded primarily in what they have seen on television (Arnold, 2004).…”

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Advances in Research Using the C-SPAN Archives

2016

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Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability

Cited by 61 publications

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O que significa “Opinião Pública”? Um estudo sobre os diferentes sentidos do termo nos editoriais do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo

O que significa “Opinião Pública”? Um estudo sobre os diferentes sentidos do termo nos editoriais do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo

The Effect of Fact‐Checking on Elites: A Field Experiment on U.S. State Legislators

Advances in Research Using the C-SPAN Archives

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