1. The State of Framing Research in Political Communication ............................................................................................................................................ The concept of framing embodies a context-sensitive explanation for shifts in political beliefs and attitudes. Framing defines a dynamic, circumstantially-bound process of opinion formation in whi...

Lau and Redlawsk (1997) proposed that the quality of voter decision making can be evaluated by measuring what they called correct voting—the extent to which people vote in accordance with their own values and priorities—but in so doing provided little guidance about what actually determines whether voters can make such high-quality decisions. This article develops a framework for analyzing the ...

Past research using self-report questionnaires administered to ordinary citizens demonstrates that value priorities differ as a function of one’s political ideology, but it is unclear whether this conclusion applies to political elites, who are presumably seeking to appeal to very broad constituencies. We used quantitative methods of textual analysis to investigate value-laden language in a col...

Why do some developing country governments accumulate large foreign debts while others do not? I hypothesize that variation in foreign borrowing is a function of variation in the breadth of public participation in the political process. Specifically, governments borrow less when political institutions enable broad public participation in the political process and encourage the revelation of inf...

We seek to explicate the precise role that one specific emotion, disgust, plays in generating political acrimony. We do so by identifying the link between the different dimensions along which moral judgments are made by those espousing different political ideologies and the different emotions which undergird these evaluations. These assessments reliably track along liberal and conservative dime...

Existing survey-based studies of political participation can be grouped into those that model participation in each activity independently (with most of them focusing on voter turnout), and those that model overall participation based on aggregate indicators of civic engagement. In this paper I develop and apply a new approach for the study of civic engagement based on simultaneous modeling of ...

The current political environment in the nation's capital threatens federal support for programs vital to the academic dental community. To develop a strong cadre of advocates who can deliver an effective and unified message to members of Congress on behalf of dental education and dental research, the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) and the American Association for Dental Research ...

Polls are used by politicians, voters, and businesspeople alike to form expectations over political outcomes. In an electoral system with ‘pork’ at the national level, local economic prospects will be a direct function of political support. Because every poll comes with its margin of error, we can exploit the error in sub-national polls to test for whether forward-looking investment in the econ...

We examine the e ects that political institutions, i.e., electoral systems and legislative processes, have on income taxation and public goods provision. We characterize the equilibrium income tax schedules and the optimality conditions under two types of political institutions, a two-party plurality system with a single district, and one with multiple districts where tax policies are determine...