Is anyone responsible? How television frames political issues.
- S. Iyengar
- Political Science
- 1991
A disturbingly cautionary tale, "Is Anyone Responsible?" anchors with powerful evidence suspicions about the way in which television has impoverished political discourse in the United States and at…
Affect, Not Ideology A Social Identity Perspective on Polarization
- S. Iyengar, G. Sood, Yphtach Lelkes
- Political Science
- 21 September 2012
The current debate over the extent of polarization in the American mass public focuses on the extent to which partisans’ policy preferences have moved. Whereas "maximalists" claim that partisans’…
News That Matters: Television and American Opinion
- S. Iyengar, D. Kinder
- Sociology
- 1987
Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtrusively altered the order and emphasis of news…
Red Media, Blue Media: Evidence of Ideological Selectivity in Media Use
- S. Iyengar, Kyu S. Hahn
- Sociology
- 1 March 2009
We show that the demand for news varies with the perceived affinity of the news organization to the consumer’s political preferences. In an experimental setting, conservatives and Republicans…
A New Era of Minimal Effects? The Changing Foundations of Political Communication
- W. Bennett, S. Iyengar
- Political Science
- 1 December 2008
The great thinkers who influenced the contemporary field of political communication were preoccupied with understanding the political, social, psychological, and economic transformations in modern…
The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States
- S. Iyengar, Yphtach Lelkes, Matthew Levendusky, Neil Malhotra, S. Westwood
- Political ScienceAnnual review of political science (Palo Alto…
- 13 May 2019
While previously polarization was primarily seen only in issue-based terms, a new type of division has emerged in the mass public in recent years: Ordinary Americans increasingly dislike and distrust…
Framing responsibility for political issues: The case of poverty
- S. Iyengar
- Economics, Sociology
- 1 March 1990
How people think about poverty is shown to be dependent on how the issue is framed. When news media presentations frame poverty as a general outcome, responsibility for poverty is assigned to…
Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate
- S. Ansolabehere, S. Iyengar
- Political Science
- 1995
Drawing on both laboratory experiments and the real world of America's presidential, gubernatorial, and congressional races, the authors show that negative advertising drives down voter turnout - in…
Fear and Loathing across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization
- S. Iyengar, S. Westwood
- Political Science
- 1 July 2015
When defined in terms of social identity and affect toward copartisans and opposing partisans, the polarization of the American electorate has dramatically increased. We document the scope and…
Prime Suspects: The Influence of Local Television News on the Viewing Public
- F. D. Gilliam, S. Iyengar
- Sociology
- 1 July 2000
Local television news is the public's primary source of public affairs information. News stories about crime dominate local news programming because they meet the demand for 'action news." The…
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