Media Framing and Audience Costs

• In Event: Experiments on Framing, Security, and Self-censorship

Brief Overview

We show that information framing has an impact on an individual’s ability to punish a leader for their actions. When a broken promise is framed positively, citizens are less willing to constrain their leader, challenging the logic of audience costs.

Authors

• Melissa N. Baker, University of California-Merced

• Peter D. Carey, University of California-Merced