Revisiting “Who Influences Whom?” Agenda Setting on Biofuels

Delshad, Ashlie B.

doi:10.1080/07343469.2012.674082

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“…Such validation efforts instill some confidence that Google Trends information is measuring what it is suggested to measure-the level of public interest in specific topics over time. Delshad (2012) also opts to use monthly Google Trends information as an exogenous control variable measuring the public's agenda in a project contrasting presidential, mass media, and congressional attention to biofuels. Such usage of Google Trends information helps to mitigate concerns that the Google Trends information is not an appropriate measure in scholarly research tracking public interest in specific issues.…”

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Assessing Presidential Agenda-Setting Capacity: Dynamic Comparisons of Presidential, Mass Media, and Public Attention to Economic Issues

Olds

2013

Congress & the Presidency

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Research on presidential agenda setting has rarely attempted to simultaneously assess the ability of the president to influence the policy agendas of the mass media and the public. This is primarily due to the lack of time-refined measures of public issue attention.With advances in technology, information about Internet search engine behavior can provide an indication of the level of interest the public has over time about specific issues. Using Google Trends weekly data about public search interest levels, this project contrasts dynamic attention to several economic issues: unemployment, recession, and inflation. The vector autoregression analyses performed suggest the president does not have the capacity to directly guide public attention, nor does the president have the capacity to indirectly guide public attention through the media. There is some indication that the president can indirectly guide public attention by influencing actual economic conditions, and that the president is responsive to attention from the mass media and the public. The moving-average representation analyses indicate that an increase in presidential attention has the potential to produce a small contemporaneous increase in either mass media or public attention to some economic issues. The duration of these positive shifts in mass media or public attention are all very brief, indicating the president has a limited capacity through either direct or indirect leadership to sustain the attention other actors in the political system place on the specific issues studied. Strong evidence in all three of the issue areas studied supports that mass media attention and public attention are closely related.

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Section: Google Trends As a Tool To Measure Public Issue Attentionmentioning

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Assessing Presidential Agenda-Setting Capacity: Dynamic Comparisons of Presidential, Mass Media, and Public Attention to Economic Issues

Olds

2013

Congress & the Presidency

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“…Indeed, in many of those studies – both on political and on public agenda setting – efforts were made to include real-world events or indicators in the agenda-setting models (Behr and Iyengar, 1985; e.g. Wood and Peake, 1998; Soroka, 2002a; Weitzer and Kubrin, 2004; Van Noije et al ., 2008; Delshad, 2012). These studies often, but not always (see e.g.…”

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“…Others are less interested in determining whether it is media or politics that is the ‘first-mover’ of political action; they assume that most action starts in the political sphere, but that the media reinforce political processes by providing positive feedback to the system (Wolfe et al ., 2013; Wolfsfeld, 2013). Still others think the media have no role in this process at all (Liu et al ., 2011; Delshad, 2012). On an empirical level, the problem is that the methodological techniques used in some agenda-setting studies are not well suited to test the causal claims that are theoretically being made.…”

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One concept, many interpretations: the media’s causal roles in political agenda-setting processes

Sevenans

2017

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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While political agenda-setting scholars agree that the news media matter when it comes to agenda setting, surprisingly, there is no consensus on the exact role these media play in the agenda-setting process. In particular, causal interpretations of the media's role are diverse. This contribution focuses on this ambiguity in the agenda-setting field. First, it outlines the main reasons for the disagreement, both on a theoretical and on an empirical level. Second, it develops a theoretical model that helps to specify what role the news media play under various circumstances. Overall, the paper strongly encourages scholars to reflect more on causal mechanisms in political agenda-setting work, and makes a first attempt at facilitating the interpretation of extant and future findings.

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“…For example, Lovett et al (2015) demonstrate that popular presidents can influence congressional policy attention though the influence is diminished during divided government. The success of presidential agenda-setting on Congress in domestic policy has been shown to widely vary by issue (Baumgartner et al, 2008;Delshad, 2012;Eshbaugh-Soha and Peake, 2005). On foreign policy, even though the president is Commander-in-Chief, presidents have demonstrated little influence on congressional actions and in fact have been shown to be particularly responsive to media attention (Edwards and Wood, 1999;Peake, 2001; though see Rutledge and Larsen Price, 2014).…”

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Patterns in the politics of drugs and tobacco: The Supreme Court and issue attention by policymakers and the press

Fogarty

Monogan

2016

Politics

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Past research has demonstrated lasting effects of important Supreme Court decisions on issue attention in the national media. In this light, the Court has served as an important agenda setter. We significantly expand on these findings by arguing that these salient Court decisions can raise the perceived importance of political issues and induce heightened, short-term policy attention in the broader political system. Using measures of media attention, congressional policy actions, and presidential policy actions, we utilize dynamic vector autoregressive modelling to examine the Court's impact on issue attention in the macro policy system regarding tobacco and drug policy. Overall, this study suggests that the Supreme Court's most important decisions might significantly affect broader issue attention in the American political system.

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Revisiting “Who Influences Whom?” Agenda Setting on Biofuels

Cited by 18 publications

References 24 publications

Assessing Presidential Agenda-Setting Capacity: Dynamic Comparisons of Presidential, Mass Media, and Public Attention to Economic Issues

Assessing Presidential Agenda-Setting Capacity: Dynamic Comparisons of Presidential, Mass Media, and Public Attention to Economic Issues

One concept, many interpretations: the media’s causal roles in political agenda-setting processes

Patterns in the politics of drugs and tobacco: The Supreme Court and issue attention by policymakers and the press

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