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Legislator Controlled Information Revelation in Constituent Communications -- Three Essays.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Legislator Controlled Information Revelation in Constituent Communications -- Three Essays./
Author:	Cormack, Lindsey.
Description:	102 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-07A(E).
Subject:	Political science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3614862
ISBN:	9781303805561

Legislator Controlled Information Revelation in Constituent Communications -- Three Essays.
Cormack, Lindsey.

Legislator Controlled Information Revelation in Constituent Communications -- Three Essays. - 102 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation theorizes about and analyzes how legislators use the medium of email to strategically communicate to constituents. I draw on the foundational works of political communication (Mayhew 1974, Fiorina 1977, Fenno 1978) as well as more recent research, (Lipinski 2004, Grimmer 2013) to supply the bases for the questions I set out to answer, the theories I seek to test, and the larger framework in which to situate my findings. Using an originally collected and coded dataset of legislator e-newsletters and Real Simple Syndication feeds, I find that legislators have embraced email communications, with 95% of Representatives and 85% of Senators sending official messages. I also find that there is a good deal of political strategy within these messages. Simply put, legislators communicate ideologically, attempt to reveal information in a manner aligned with their expectations of the most electorally relevant potential voters, and differently situated legislators communicate different types of information. This research contributes valuable resources to the discipline and adds to the nuance of the greater understanding of political communication. Do legislators tend to focus on neutral and risk-averse communication strategies such as advertising as posited by earlier research? On average, no. The 111-113th Congresses all contain many legislators willing to engage in position taking and political posturing in online communications. Are legislators strategic in the votes they reveal to constituents? Yes, legislators are more likely to appear extreme in their communications as compared to their voting history as the ratio of base to swing voters increases in their districts. When voting, however, this ratio seems to exert no explanatory power and instead donor and overall district ideology better explain extremism in legislator voting patterns. Do women and men use these technologies differently? Yes and no. Legislators of both sexes communicate at similar rates, but the messages they seek to convey are different. Women tend to focus more on revealing votes than men. In sum, this dissertation offers insight into how these new technologies are used by politicians, provides a framework for thinking about strategic vote revelation in political communications, and highlights just a few of the many uses for this new data.

ISBN: 9781303805561Subjects--Topical Terms:

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