Taking Issue with Issue Advocacy

Issue advocacy groups and media Running head: ISSUE ADVOCACY GROUPS AND MEDIA Choosing the Right Media for Mobilization: Understanding Issue Advocacy Groups’ Media Choice Strategies

Issue advocacy groups play a central role in today’s political system, but their media and communication use has seldom been examined to date. Grounded in the uses and gratifications approach and the niche theory, this study surveyed media and communication technology usage of 209 issue advocacy groups in the United State. The findings suggest that a variety of media are used for citizen mobili...

Issue Advocacy and Mass Political Sophistication

We present a game-theoretic model of political discourse that explores how strategic incentives to make potentially persuasive arguments vary across different informational contexts. We show that political sophistication of the listeners fundamentally affects the speakers’ incentives to make informative arguments, increasing the informed speech for speakers who are less likely to be successful ...

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