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- Influence
Framing Theory
- D. Chong, J. Druckman
- 2007
■ Abstract We review the meaning of the concept of framing, approaches to studying framing, and the effects of framing on public opinion. After defining framing and framing effects, we articulate a… Expand
The Implications of Framing Effects for Citizen Competence
- J. Druckman
- Political Science
- 1 September 2001
Social scientists have documented framing effects in a wide range of contexts, including surveys, experiments, and actual political campaigns. Many view work on framing effects as evidence of citizen… Expand
A Theory of Framing and Opinion Formation in Competitive Elite Environments
- D. Chong, J. Druckman
- Political Science
- 1 March 2007
Public opinion often depends on how elites choose to frame issues. For example, citizens’ opinions about a Ku Klux Klan rally may depend on whether elites frame the event as a free-speech issue or a… Expand
On the Limits of Framing Effects: Who Can Frame?
- J. Druckman
- Political Science
- The Journal of Politics
- 1 November 2001
Public opinion often depends on which frames elites choose to use. For example, citizens' opinions about a Ku Klux Klan rally may depend on whether elites frame it as a free speech issue or a public… Expand
Framing Public Opinion in Competitive Democracies
- D. Chong, J. Druckman
- Sociology
- American Political Science Review
- 1 November 2007
What is the effect of democratic competition on the power of elites to frame public opinion? We address this issue first by defining the range of competitive contexts that might surround any debate… Expand
Framing and Deliberation: How Citizens' Conversations Limit Elite Influence
- J. Druckman, K. Nelson
- Political Science
- 1 October 2003
Public opinion research demonstrates that citizens' opinions depend on elite rhetoric and interpersonal conversations. Yet, we continue to have little idea about how these two forces interact with… Expand
Political Preference Formation: Competition, Deliberation, and the (Ir)relevance of Framing Effects
- J. Druckman
- Psychology
- American Political Science Review
- 1 November 2004
One of the most contested questions in the social sciences is whether people behave rationally. A large body of work assumes that individuals do in fact make rational economic, political, and social… Expand
How Elite Partisan Polarization Affects Public Opinion Formation
- J. Druckman, Erik Peterson, Rune Slothuus
- Sociology, Political Science
- American Political Science Review
- 25 January 2013
Competition is a defining element of democracy. One of the most noteworthy events over the last quarter-century in U.S. politics is the change in the nature of elite party competition: The parties… Expand
The Generalizability of Survey Experiments
- Kevin J. Mullinix, T. Leeper, J. Druckman, J. Freese
- Psychology
- 1 December 2015
Survey experiments have become a central methodology across the social sciences. Researchers can combine experiments’ causal power with the generalizability of population-based samples. Yet, due to… Expand
Evaluating framing effects
- J. Druckman
- Psychology
- 1 February 2001
Abstract This paper examines Tversky and Kahneman's well-known Asian disease framing problem (A. Tversky, D. Kahneman, Science 211 (1981) 453–458). I describe an experiment where respondents received… Expand