{"id":2761,"date":"2014-10-15T06:58:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T10:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2015-04-24T20:50:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T00:50:56","slug":"interesting-read-joshua-d-clinton-and-ted-enamorado-the-national-news-medias-effect-on-congress-how-fox-news-affected-elites-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/interesting-read-joshua-d-clinton-and-ted-enamorado-the-national-news-medias-effect-on-congress-how-fox-news-affected-elites-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Read: Joshua D. Clinton and Ted Enamorado, “The National News Media’s Effect on Congress: How Fox News Affected Elites in Congress”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Too often,\u00a0political science journals publish articles focused on questions too distantly connected to real world political phenomena. It is a\u00a0modern sort of scholasticism<\/a>, as my friend Professor Lawrence Mead<\/a> terms it, that heavily utilizes mathematical models to ponder the existent literature on a topic.<\/p>\n

So it was with great pleasure to find this article in the October 2014 copy of the Journal of Politics<\/em><\/a>. Mssrs. Clinton<\/a> and Enamorado<\/a>, of Vanderbilt University and Princeton University respectively, employ\u00a0statistical analysis that is not comprehensible\u00a0by the average reader. But they do so to investigate an interesting empirical question: “whether position-taking behavior in Congress and the likelihood of reelection is affected by the national news media.” The authors find that incumbent House members became “slightly less likely to support\u00a0President Clinton” in districts where Fox News” began broadcasting than similar representatives in similar districts where Fox News was not broadcast.” For a Member of Congress, the shift took a couple of years subsequent to the arrival of Fox News in his district, and it might well have been nothing more than rhetorical posturing in the run-up to reelection. The authors also found that Fox News\u00a0did not affect whether an incumbent was reelected.<\/p>\n

Thus, the take-away affirms\u00a0that Members of Congress, not surprisingly, will tack<\/a> to the wind. (And in practice, I must add, politicians tend to use media as a proxy for the electorate.)<\/p>\n

Read more at\u00a0http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9342585&fileId=S0022381614000425<\/a>\u00a0(subscription required). An earlier version of the paper may be found at\u00a0https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/joshclinton\/files\/2013\/06\/ClintonEnamorado_JOP.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Too often,\u00a0political science journals publish articles focused on questions too distantly connected to real world political phenomena. It is a\u00a0modern sort of scholasticism, as my friend Professor Lawrence Mead terms it, that heavily utilizes mathematical models to ponder the existent literature on a topic. So it was with great pleasure to find this article in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[160,143],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-interesting-read","tag-r-street-institute-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Ix","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2767,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/2767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}