How Candidates Influence Each Other in Electoral Politics: Intercandidate Agenda-Building in Florida’s 2018 Midterm Election

Arceneaux, Phillip; Albishri, Osama; Kiousis, Spiro

doi:10.1080/15377857.2022.2040690

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“…, 2022). This method is standard within agenda-building research utilizing computational methods (Arceneaux et al. , 2022; Conway et al.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We utilized two sets of dictionaries. The first pulled 11 dictionaries from Arceneaux et al . (2022) to measure the salience of political issues.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…“1” represented present and “0” not present. In this computational method, reliability is not of concern because of computer-consistent coding (Arceneaux et al. , 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…If the candidates are speaking in moral terms, the media may also match their sentiment, creating an agenda-building influence. Moreover, this study is a traditional agenda-building analysis (Arceneaux et al, 2022) while allowing MFT-based language to serve as affective attributes. Examining the 2020 presidential campaigns and media coverage, we further understanding on moral intuitions employed by political elites.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For instance, Tedesco (2005) highlighted reciprocal agenda-building influence between the Bush and Kerry 2004 campaigns and newspapers, while Conway et al (2015) found evidence of a reciprocal relationship between media coverage and several other political entities. Turning to state politics, agenda-building has found support in the 2002 Michigan gubernatorial race (Lancendorfer and Lee, 2010), the 2009 Virginia gubernatorial race (Dunn, 2009), and the 2018 Florida midterm election (Arceneaux et al, 2022). It is important to continue such research, as US politics are constantly in flux with increasing polarization.…”

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Morality on the ballot: strategic issue salience and affective moral intuitions in the 2020 US presidential election

Shaughnessy,

Albishri,

Arceneaux

et al. 2023

JCOM

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PurposeWhile morality is ever-present in elections, scholars have yet to merge political public relations and Moral Foundations Theory. It is crucial to assess the complex morality present not only in social deduction, but also in political strategic communication. The current work aims to analyze the issue agendas and their relationships in the 2020 presidential campaign and assesses their moral strategy.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a computer-assisted content analysis (N = 7,888) with each moral intuition coded from the Moral Foundations Dictionary. Datapoints included campaign tweets, Facebook posts, debate performances, remarks, news releases and nomination acceptance speeches. Coverage included articles from including The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN and Fox News to assess both liberal and conservative media.FindingsCandidates' issue and moral agendas were correlated with each other and with the media's agenda. Comparatively, the Biden campaign has stronger correlations when it came to connecting with issues, stakeholders and moral intuitions in the media agenda than the Trump campaign. For issues, the Biden campaign prioritized COVID-19 and the economy, while the Trump campaign prioritized the economy and crime. The candidates also had similar moral strategies.Practical implicationsThis study suggests effectively leveraging organizational communications in democracies can support the transfer of object salience, moral attributes and networks to media coverage, public discourse and opponent messaging. It can also help achieve organizational goals by managing public image, reputation and expectations.Originality/valueThis work expands the literature by taking a pluralist moral psychology approach in assessing the salience and correlation of five moral intuitions: harm/care, fairness/reciprocity, ingroup/loyalty, authority/respect and purity/sanctity. This study serves as a springboard for examining morality's impact on political public relations.

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“…, 2022). This method is standard within agenda-building research utilizing computational methods (Arceneaux et al. , 2022; Conway et al.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We utilized two sets of dictionaries. The first pulled 11 dictionaries from Arceneaux et al . (2022) to measure the salience of political issues.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…“1” represented present and “0” not present. In this computational method, reliability is not of concern because of computer-consistent coding (Arceneaux et al. , 2022).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mft and Political Public Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%