Thomas Hartley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4123426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Hartley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Hartley |
| SIGNATURE | HARTLEY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1969-5749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How the News Media Fail American Voters
1. Campaigns Are Unthinkable, Save in Terms of the News Media2. Media Use in the 1996 Campaign3. Explaining Media Use4. Scratching the Surface: Overall Ratings of Election Coverage5. Tilting Left: Perceptions of Political Bias in Election Coverage6. Evaluations of News Content and News Sources7. The Consequences of Poor Media Performance8. Conclusion
The End of the Cold War, Attitude Change, and the Politics of Defense Spending
Throughout the Cold War, United States national security policy, and the public attitudes that supported it, seemed anchored in the great ideology and power rivalry with the Soviet Union. A basic component of that policy, the ups and downs of American military spending, was largely predictable by changes in the level of Soviet military spending and by public preferences, as expressed in opinion surveys, for increases or decreases in American mili…
Complex Measures and Sociotropic Voting
Social scientists often employ measures that tap correlated factors. This article explores the effects of these complex measures on OLS estimators and specifies some of the conditions under which researchers should or should not include them in a regression.The derivations allow us to shed some new light on the debate about sociotropic and pocketbook voting. In a classic piece, Kramer (1983) criticized inferences about economic interests that wer…
Public Opinion and the Common Defense
We measure the extent to which military spending policy reflects public opinion, while controlling for other reasonable influences on policy. We use survey data as an indicator of aggregate public opinion on military spending and find evidence that changes in public opinion consistently exert an effect on changes in military spending. The influence of public opinion is less important than either Soviet military spending or the gap between U.S. an…
Public Opinion and the Common Defense
We measure the extent to which military spending policy reflects public opinion, while controlling for other reasonable influences on policy. We use survey data as an indicator of aggregate public opinion on military spending and find evidence that changes in public opinion consistently exert an effect on changes in military spending. The influence of public opinion is less important than either Soviet military spending or the gap between U.S. an…
Complex Measures and Sociotropic Voting
Social scientists often employ measures that tap correlated factors. This article explores the effects of these complex measures on OLS estimators and specifies some of the conditions under which researchers should or should not include them in a regression.The derivations allow us to shed some new light on the debate about sociotropic and pocketbook voting. In a classic piece, Kramer (1983) criticized inferences about economic interests that wer…
Complex Measures and Sociotropic Voting
Social scientists often employ measures that tap correlated factors. This article explores the effects of these complex measures on OLS estimators and specifies some of the conditions under which researchers should or should not include them in a regression.The derivations allow us to shed some new light on the debate about sociotropic and pocketbook voting. In a classic piece, Kramer (1983) criticized inferences about economic interests that wer…
Public Opinion and the Common Defense
We measure the extent to which military spending policy reflects public opinion, while controlling for other reasonable influences on policy. We use survey data as an indicator of aggregate public opinion on military spending and find evidence that changes in public opinion consistently exert an effect on changes in military spending. The influence of public opinion is less important than either Soviet military spending or the gap between U.S. an…
The End of the Cold War, Attitude Change, and the Politics of Defense Spending
Throughout the Cold War, United States national security policy, and the public attitudes that supported it, seemed anchored in the great ideology and power rivalry with the Soviet Union. A basic component of that policy, the ups and downs of American military spending, was largely predictable by changes in the level of Soviet military spending and by public preferences, as expressed in opinion surveys, for increases or decreases in American mili…
How the News Media Fail American Voters
1. Campaigns Are Unthinkable, Save in Terms of the News Media2. Media Use in the 1996 Campaign3. Explaining Media Use4. Scratching the Surface: Overall Ratings of Election Coverage5. Tilting Left: Perceptions of Political Bias in Election Coverage6. Evaluations of News Content and News Sources7. The Consequences of Poor Media Performance8. Conclusion
Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media Influence and Politics (2 works) · Perception (2 works)