Traces the influence of the stock market on Americans’ beliefs about politics.
Drawing on a wide variety of empirical methodologies, including large-scale survey analysis, survey experiments, and content analyses, Following the Ticker explores the complex relationship between stock market performance and political judgments through distinctive patterns of coverage in American news media. Building an eclectic theory that explores the interplay between media agenda-setting and partisan motivated reasoning, author Ian G. Anson helps to explain why the stock market increasingly occupies the minds of Americans when they evaluate the performance of incumbent presidents. In doing so, Following the Ticker contributes to a growing literature exploring the links between public opinion and economic inequality in American society. Because ‘the stock market is not the economy, ‘ the increasing salience of the stock market as a source of political judgments reflects a worrying development for classic models of democratic accountability.
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Data-Driven Agenda Setting: How Stock Market Indicators Shape Citizen Perceptions
2. ‘Following the Ticker’: Media Agenda Setting and Stock Market Data
3. Grappling with Bulls and Bears: How Congress Discusses the Economy
4. The Politicization of Stock Market Perceptions
5. Framing the Stock Market: Experimental Evidence
Conclusions
Appendices
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Circa l’autore
Ian G. Anson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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