Persuading the Enemy: Estimating the Persuasive Effects of Partisan Media with the Preference-Incorporating Choice and Assignment Design

Does media choice cause polarization, or merely reflect it? We investigate a critical aspect of this puzzle: How partisan media contribute to attitude polarization among different groups of media consumers. We implement a new experimental design, called the Preference-Incorporating Choice and Assign...

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Main Authors: De Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, Baum, Matthew A., Berinsky, Adam, Yamamoto, Teppei
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126889