• DOI:10.1017/S0022381614000425
Corpus ID: 31934930

The National News Media’s Effect on Congress: How Fox News Affected Elites in Congress

@article{Clinton2014TheNN,
  title={The National News Media’s Effect on Congress: How Fox News Affected Elites in Congress},
  author={J. Clinton and Ted Enamorado},
  journal={The Journal of Politics},
  year={2014},
  volume={76},
  pages={928 - 943}
}

J. Clinton, Ted Enamorado

Published 2014

Political Science

The Journal of Politics

Despite the prominence of the national news media, it is unclear whether elected officials are affected by the national news media in policy-consequential ways because of the difficulty of disentangling the influence of the media on Congress from Congress’s influence on the media. We use a unique opportunity to determine whether position-taking behavior in Congress and the likelihood of reelection is affected by the national news media. Using the fact that the Fox News Channel spread gradually… CONTINUE READING

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