Parallel Partisan Public Responsiveness to Policy and the News

• In Event: Media, Information, and Public Responsiveness

Brief Overview

Building on previous research on thermostatic public opinion, we find that Democrats, Independents, and Republications respond in strikingly similar ways to policy and this appears to reflect the more general signal evident across media outlets.

Authors

• Stuart Soroka, University of California, Los Angeles

• Christopher Wlezien, University of Texas at Austin