Adam F Simon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3443267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam F Simon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam F |
| FAMILY NAME | Simon |
| SIGNATURE | SIMON A F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 698 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Winning Message: Candidate Behavior, Campaign Discourse, and Democracy
Toward a Theory Relating Political Discourse, Media, and Public Opinion
This paper presents a multimethod investigation of framing in the government–media–public interaction during the so-called partial-birth abortion (PBA) debate in the U.S. Operationalizing framing as the use of the word “baby” or “fetus,” content analysis first shows that opposing political elites employed almost exclusive vocabularies in attempts to justify their views and shape attitudes. Time-series analysis then charts the path of “baby’s” dis…
Dimensional Reduction of Word-Frequency Data as a Substitute for Intersubjective Content Analysis
This paper presents a method for using dimensional reduction in the analysis of political content. We draw inspiration from latent semantic analysis (LSA) theory, which posits that factor analysis can successfully model human language. We suggest that the factor analysis of word frequencies generated from any political text—for example, open-ended survey responses—provides adequate content analysis categories and can substitute for more commonly …
The Winning Message: Candidate Behavior, Campaign Discourse, and Democracy
This study breaks new ground in investigating candidate behavior in American electoral campaigns. It centers on a question of equal importance to citizens and scholars: how can we produce better political campaigns? The project takes an innovative approach to answering this question by bringing together critical and empirical methods as well as game theory in a sophisticated yet readable text. The answer comes in four parts. First, Simon develops…
Discussion's Impact on Political Allocations: An Experimental Approach
In this study, we unite two experimental traditions to examine the impact of discursive processes on political decision making. We directly manipulate the presence and timing of discussion in the “divide-the-dollar” game to assess the effects of discussion on participants' allocations and perceptions of the game's legitimacy. To investigate the influence of structure, we also manipulate the presence of a majority/minority cleavage among participa…
The Winning Message: Candidate Behavior, Campaign Discourse, and Democracy (Communication, Society and Politics)
Habermas in the Lab: A Study of Deliberation in an Experimental Setting
This study outlines a new paradigm for the investigation of the effects of deliberation on political decisions. Specifically, it uses the ultimatum game as a situation in which the opportunity to deliberate and the placement of this opportunity are experimentally manipulated. Structural factors, such as the players’ roles and their ability to vote on the proposal being offered, are also manipulated as a basis for comparison. Two outcomes are exam…
Media Framing and Effective Public Deliberation
Keywords: Public Deliberation Media Frame Political Argument Ups Strike
New Perspectives and Evidence on Political Communication and Campaign Effects
We review recent empirical evidence that shows political campaigns are more potent than widely believed, focusing on the conceptual and methodological advances that have produced these findings. Conceptually, a broader definition of effects--that includes learning and agenda-control, as well as vote choice--characterizes contemporary research. This research also features two kinds of interactive models that are more complex than the traditional h…
Replicating Experiments Using Aggregate and Survey Data: The Case of Negative Advertising and Turnout
Experiments show significant demobilizing and alienating effects of negative advertising. Although internally valid, experiments may have limited external validity. Aggregate and survey data offer two ways of providing external validation for experiments. We show that survey recall measures of advertising exposure suffer from problems of internal validity due to simultaneity and measurement error, which bias estimated effects of ad exposure. We p…
Crime in Black and White: The Violent, Scary World of Local News
Crime is central to the public debate about the state of American society. Citizens consistently express great concern about the issue and are increasingly calling for punitive policies, such as “three strikes” and the death penalty. In response, politicians and policymakers have allocated larger and larger shares of their budgets to crime control. This is ironic given that the population-adjusted crime rate has declined in recent years. This art…
Toward Theory-Based Research in Political Communication
can do quite well in seeking policy benefits. In the case of the Contract With America, conservative business interests joined forces with Republican legislators and communications consultants to promote a legislative program with clear beneficiaries. Those who are organized and have big financial interests can gain disproportionate government benefits. All of this suggests that Schattschneider's (1960) fears about the interest group chorus singi…
Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate
We address the effects of negative campaign advertising on turnout. Using a unique experimental design in which advertising tone is manipulated within the identical audiovisual context, we find that exposure to negative advertisements dropped intentions to vote by 5%. We then replicate this result through an aggregate-level analysis of turnout and campaign tone in the 1992 Senate elections. Finally, we show that the demobilizing effects of negati…
News Coverage of the Gulf Crisis and Public Opinion: A Study of Agenda-Setting, Priming, and Framing
This article documents three types of media effects that operated on public opinion during the Persian Gulf crisis and war. First, the level of network news coverage matched the proportion of Gallup poll respondents naming the Gulf crisis as the nation's most important problem (agenda-setting ). Second, use of data from the 1988, 1990, and 1991 National Election Studies (NES) shows that the weight respondents accorded foreign policy performance w…
Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate
We address the effects of negative campaign advertising on turnout. Using a unique experimental design in which advertising tone is manipulated within the identical audiovisual context, we find that exposure to negative advertisements dropped intentions to vote by 5%. We then replicate this result through an aggregate-level analysis of turnout and campaign tone in the 1992 Senate elections. Finally, we show that the demobilizing effects of negati…
New Perspectives and Evidence on Political Communication and Campaign Effects
We review recent empirical evidence that shows political campaigns are more potent than widely believed, focusing on the conceptual and methodological advances that have produced these findings. Conceptually, a broader definition of effects--that includes learning and agenda-control, as well as vote choice--characterizes contemporary research. This research also features two kinds of interactive models that are more complex than the traditional h…
Replicating Experiments Using Aggregate and Survey Data: The Case of Negative Advertising and Turnout
Experiments show significant demobilizing and alienating effects of negative advertising. Although internally valid, experiments may have limited external validity. Aggregate and survey data offer two ways of providing external validation for experiments. We show that survey recall measures of advertising exposure suffer from problems of internal validity due to simultaneity and measurement error, which bias estimated effects of ad exposure. We p…
Media Framing and Effective Public Deliberation
Keywords: Public Deliberation Media Frame Political Argument Ups Strike
Crime in Black and White: The Violent, Scary World of Local News
Crime is central to the public debate about the state of American society. Citizens consistently express great concern about the issue and are increasingly calling for punitive policies, such as “three strikes” and the death penalty. In response, politicians and policymakers have allocated larger and larger shares of their budgets to crime control. This is ironic given that the population-adjusted crime rate has declined in recent years. This art…
Habermas in the Lab: A Study of Deliberation in an Experimental Setting
This study outlines a new paradigm for the investigation of the effects of deliberation on political decisions. Specifically, it uses the ultimatum game as a situation in which the opportunity to deliberate and the placement of this opportunity are experimentally manipulated. Structural factors, such as the players’ roles and their ability to vote on the proposal being offered, are also manipulated as a basis for comparison. Two outcomes are exam…
Dimensional Reduction of Word-Frequency Data as a Substitute for Intersubjective Content Analysis
This paper presents a method for using dimensional reduction in the analysis of political content. We draw inspiration from latent semantic analysis (LSA) theory, which posits that factor analysis can successfully model human language. We suggest that the factor analysis of word frequencies generated from any political text—for example, open-ended survey responses—provides adequate content analysis categories and can substitute for more commonly …
Discussion's Impact on Political Allocations: An Experimental Approach
In this study, we unite two experimental traditions to examine the impact of discursive processes on political decision making. We directly manipulate the presence and timing of discussion in the “divide-the-dollar” game to assess the effects of discussion on participants' allocations and perceptions of the game's legitimacy. To investigate the influence of structure, we also manipulate the presence of a majority/minority cleavage among participa…
Toward Theory-Based Research in Political Communication
can do quite well in seeking policy benefits. In the case of the Contract With America, conservative business interests joined forces with Republican legislators and communications consultants to promote a legislative program with clear beneficiaries. Those who are organized and have big financial interests can gain disproportionate government benefits. All of this suggests that Schattschneider's (1960) fears about the interest group chorus singi…
News Coverage of the Gulf Crisis and Public Opinion: A Study of Agenda-Setting, Priming, and Framing
This article documents three types of media effects that operated on public opinion during the Persian Gulf crisis and war. First, the level of network news coverage matched the proportion of Gallup poll respondents naming the Gulf crisis as the nation's most important problem (agenda-setting ). Second, use of data from the 1988, 1990, and 1991 National Election Studies (NES) shows that the weight respondents accorded foreign policy performance w…
Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate
We address the effects of negative campaign advertising on turnout. Using a unique experimental design in which advertising tone is manipulated within the identical audiovisual context, we find that exposure to negative advertisements dropped intentions to vote by 5%. We then replicate this result through an aggregate-level analysis of turnout and campaign tone in the 1992 Senate elections. Finally, we show that the demobilizing effects of negati…
Crime in Black and White: The Violent, Scary World of Local News
Crime is central to the public debate about the state of American society. Citizens consistently express great concern about the issue and are increasingly calling for punitive policies, such as “three strikes” and the death penalty. In response, politicians and policymakers have allocated larger and larger shares of their budgets to crime control. This is ironic given that the population-adjusted crime rate has declined in recent years. This art…
Toward Theory-Based Research in Political Communication
can do quite well in seeking policy benefits. In the case of the Contract With America, conservative business interests joined forces with Republican legislators and communications consultants to promote a legislative program with clear beneficiaries. Those who are organized and have big financial interests can gain disproportionate government benefits. All of this suggests that Schattschneider's (1960) fears about the interest group chorus singi…
Replicating Experiments Using Aggregate and Survey Data: The Case of Negative Advertising and Turnout
Experiments show significant demobilizing and alienating effects of negative advertising. Although internally valid, experiments may have limited external validity. Aggregate and survey data offer two ways of providing external validation for experiments. We show that survey recall measures of advertising exposure suffer from problems of internal validity due to simultaneity and measurement error, which bias estimated effects of ad exposure. We p…
Media Framing and Effective Public Deliberation
Keywords: Public Deliberation Media Frame Political Argument Ups Strike
New Perspectives and Evidence on Political Communication and Campaign Effects
We review recent empirical evidence that shows political campaigns are more potent than widely believed, focusing on the conceptual and methodological advances that have produced these findings. Conceptually, a broader definition of effects--that includes learning and agenda-control, as well as vote choice--characterizes contemporary research. This research also features two kinds of interactive models that are more complex than the traditional h…
Habermas in the Lab: A Study of Deliberation in an Experimental Setting
This study outlines a new paradigm for the investigation of the effects of deliberation on political decisions. Specifically, it uses the ultimatum game as a situation in which the opportunity to deliberate and the placement of this opportunity are experimentally manipulated. Structural factors, such as the players’ roles and their ability to vote on the proposal being offered, are also manipulated as a basis for comparison. Two outcomes are exam…
The Winning Message: Candidate Behavior, Campaign Discourse, and Democracy
This study breaks new ground in investigating candidate behavior in American electoral campaigns. It centers on a question of equal importance to citizens and scholars: how can we produce better political campaigns? The project takes an innovative approach to answering this question by bringing together critical and empirical methods as well as game theory in a sophisticated yet readable text. The answer comes in four parts. First, Simon develops…
Discussion's Impact on Political Allocations: An Experimental Approach
In this study, we unite two experimental traditions to examine the impact of discursive processes on political decision making. We directly manipulate the presence and timing of discussion in the “divide-the-dollar” game to assess the effects of discussion on participants' allocations and perceptions of the game's legitimacy. To investigate the influence of structure, we also manipulate the presence of a majority/minority cleavage among participa…
The Winning Message: Candidate Behavior, Campaign Discourse, and Democracy (Communication, Society and Politics)
Dimensional Reduction of Word-Frequency Data as a Substitute for Intersubjective Content Analysis
This paper presents a method for using dimensional reduction in the analysis of political content. We draw inspiration from latent semantic analysis (LSA) theory, which posits that factor analysis can successfully model human language. We suggest that the factor analysis of word frequencies generated from any political text—for example, open-ended survey responses—provides adequate content analysis categories and can substitute for more commonly …
Toward a Theory Relating Political Discourse, Media, and Public Opinion
This paper presents a multimethod investigation of framing in the government–media–public interaction during the so-called partial-birth abortion (PBA) debate in the U.S. Operationalizing framing as the use of the word “baby” or “fetus,” content analysis first shows that opposing political elites employed almost exclusive vocabularies in attempts to justify their views and shape attitudes. Time-series analysis then charts the path of “baby’s” dis…
Winning Message: Candidate Behavior, Campaign Discourse, and Democracy
Political science (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Media Influence and Politics (5 works) · Public opinion (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)