The Varying Mechanisms of Media Access: Explaining Interest Groups’ Media Visibility across Political Systems

“The Causal Effect of Media-Driven Political Interest on Political Attitudes and Behavior”

This article considers the hypothesis that media-driven political interest shapes party identification, the timing of vote decisions, and electoral participation. To estimate the effect of media-driven political interest, we make a key distinction between political interest as a lifetime political orientation and political interest that rises and falls with the occurrence of noteworthy politica...

political interest groups in the united states

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Mass Media and Political

Social media and research visibility.

Assessing the value of scientific research output, an important component of academic promotion and tenure, is increasingly based on metrics such as the Impact Factor, H-index, and more recently Google Scholar, that attempt to numerically encapsulate an author’s productivity and scholarly impact. The H-index, discussed by AJNR Editor-in-Chief Mauricio Castillo in a 2010 editorial, and an expand...

Media and Political Polarization

This article examines if the emergence of more partisan media has contributed to political polarization and led Americans to support more partisan policies and candidates. Congress and some newer media outlets have added more partisan messages to a continuing supply of mostly centrist news. Although political attitudes of most Americans have remained fairly moderate, evidence points to some pol...