Keena Lipsitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4179998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keena Lipsitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keena |
| FAMILY NAME | Lipsitz |
| SIGNATURE | LIPSITZ K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens College, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9192-836X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Local Norms, Political Partisanship, and Pandemic Response
A growing literature focuses on the role of political partisanship in shaping attitudes and behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. We provide a different perspective, by developing a theory of how partisanship interacts with another important factor that shapes how people think and behave in the context of the pandemic—local norms. Using a combination of survey data and a survey experiment, we demonstrate the importance of n…
The Nonlinear Effects of Political Advertising
Political communication scholars who study the persuasive effects of political advertising often assume that the relationship between advertising volume and vote choice is linear. Even though the product advertising literature has long recognized that advertising has both “wear in” and “wear out” effects, few political communication scholars consider this possibility. This study explains why it is both normatively and empirically important to det…
How Moral Value Commitments Shape Responses to Political Civility and Incivility
Citizen exposure to political incivility is increasing. Studies have found heterogeneous responses to incivility, but we know little about what drives this variation. This study investigates whether emotional responses to both civility and incivility are driven by moral value commitments. Drawing on Moral Foundations Theory, we argue that incivility should pose more of a threat to people who embrace an individualizing system of moral regulation t…
Playing with Emotions
Rethinking the Concept of Negativity
Over the last twenty years, there has been a tremendous amount written on “negativity” in political campaigns. Yet, there is a conceptual disconnect between the definition of negativity used by researchers and how citizens define negativity. In this article, we show how large this disparity is and what its consequences are. Using a nationally representative online survey of 17,400 Americans and nearly 100 scholars of American politics who viewed …
Issue Convergence Is Nothing More than Issue Convergence
It is widely assumed that candidate issue convergence or “dialogue” is beneficial for voters in campaigns. Using a lagged weekly measure of issue convergence in political advertising about specific campaign issues from the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns, I show that dialogue, as it is currently defined by campaigns and elections scholars, is as likely to harm voters as it is to help them. These findings require scholars to think more deeply…
Orphan Counties and the Effect of Irrelevant Information on Turnout in Statewide Races
Over 10% of the American electorate lives in counties served by out-of-state media because of the mismatch between media markets and state boundaries. Frequently, these “orphan” counties face a different information environment than others in their home state: they receive no news coverage and political advertising for their own statewide races, irrelevant information pertaining to candidates in the neighboring state who will not appear on their …
Do Voters Perceive Negative Campaigns as Informative Campaigns
We argue that citizens distinguish the tone of a campaign from the quality of information that it provides and that evaluations on each dimension respond differently to positive and negative political advertising. We test these claims using survey and advertising data from the 2000 presidential campaign and two 1998 gubernatorial races. In each race, citizens separate judgments about the tone of a campaign from judgments about the quality of info…
The Consequences of Battleground and “Spectator” State Residency for Political Participation
What Voters Want From Political Campaign Communication
Conventional wisdom holds that the public dislikes campaigns for their negativity and superficiality, preferring a cleaner, substantive, and more deliberative process. By contrast, the implication of Hibbing and Theiss-Morse's (2002) Hibbing, J. and Theiss-Morse, E. 2002. Stealth democracy: Americans' beliefs about how government should work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar] Stealth Democracy is that, while cit…
Democratic Theory and Political Campaigns
The Historic Separation of Schools from City Politics
What Voters Want From Political Campaign Communication
Conventional wisdom holds that the public dislikes campaigns for their negativity and superficiality, preferring a cleaner, substantive, and more deliberative process. By contrast, the implication of Hibbing and Theiss-Morse's (2002) Hibbing, J. and Theiss-Morse, E. 2002. Stealth democracy: Americans' beliefs about how government should work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar] Stealth Democracy is that, while cit…
Playing with Emotions
The Consequences of Battleground and “Spectator” State Residency for Political Participation
Rethinking the Concept of Negativity
Over the last twenty years, there has been a tremendous amount written on “negativity” in political campaigns. Yet, there is a conceptual disconnect between the definition of negativity used by researchers and how citizens define negativity. In this article, we show how large this disparity is and what its consequences are. Using a nationally representative online survey of 17,400 Americans and nearly 100 scholars of American politics who viewed …
Issue Convergence Is Nothing More than Issue Convergence
It is widely assumed that candidate issue convergence or “dialogue” is beneficial for voters in campaigns. Using a lagged weekly measure of issue convergence in political advertising about specific campaign issues from the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns, I show that dialogue, as it is currently defined by campaigns and elections scholars, is as likely to harm voters as it is to help them. These findings require scholars to think more deeply…
Do Voters Perceive Negative Campaigns as Informative Campaigns
We argue that citizens distinguish the tone of a campaign from the quality of information that it provides and that evaluations on each dimension respond differently to positive and negative political advertising. We test these claims using survey and advertising data from the 2000 presidential campaign and two 1998 gubernatorial races. In each race, citizens separate judgments about the tone of a campaign from judgments about the quality of info…
Democratic Theory and Political Campaigns
Local Norms, Political Partisanship, and Pandemic Response
A growing literature focuses on the role of political partisanship in shaping attitudes and behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. We provide a different perspective, by developing a theory of how partisanship interacts with another important factor that shapes how people think and behave in the context of the pandemic—local norms. Using a combination of survey data and a survey experiment, we demonstrate the importance of n…
Orphan Counties and the Effect of Irrelevant Information on Turnout in Statewide Races
Over 10% of the American electorate lives in counties served by out-of-state media because of the mismatch between media markets and state boundaries. Frequently, these “orphan” counties face a different information environment than others in their home state: they receive no news coverage and political advertising for their own statewide races, irrelevant information pertaining to candidates in the neighboring state who will not appear on their …
The Historic Separation of Schools from City Politics
The Nonlinear Effects of Political Advertising
Political communication scholars who study the persuasive effects of political advertising often assume that the relationship between advertising volume and vote choice is linear. Even though the product advertising literature has long recognized that advertising has both “wear in” and “wear out” effects, few political communication scholars consider this possibility. This study explains why it is both normatively and empirically important to det…
The Historic Separation of Schools from City Politics
Democratic Theory and Political Campaigns
What Voters Want From Political Campaign Communication
Conventional wisdom holds that the public dislikes campaigns for their negativity and superficiality, preferring a cleaner, substantive, and more deliberative process. By contrast, the implication of Hibbing and Theiss-Morse's (2002) Hibbing, J. and Theiss-Morse, E. 2002. Stealth democracy: Americans' beliefs about how government should work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar] Stealth Democracy is that, while cit…
The Consequences of Battleground and “Spectator” State Residency for Political Participation
Orphan Counties and the Effect of Irrelevant Information on Turnout in Statewide Races
Over 10% of the American electorate lives in counties served by out-of-state media because of the mismatch between media markets and state boundaries. Frequently, these “orphan” counties face a different information environment than others in their home state: they receive no news coverage and political advertising for their own statewide races, irrelevant information pertaining to candidates in the neighboring state who will not appear on their …
Do Voters Perceive Negative Campaigns as Informative Campaigns
We argue that citizens distinguish the tone of a campaign from the quality of information that it provides and that evaluations on each dimension respond differently to positive and negative political advertising. We test these claims using survey and advertising data from the 2000 presidential campaign and two 1998 gubernatorial races. In each race, citizens separate judgments about the tone of a campaign from judgments about the quality of info…
Issue Convergence Is Nothing More than Issue Convergence
It is widely assumed that candidate issue convergence or “dialogue” is beneficial for voters in campaigns. Using a lagged weekly measure of issue convergence in political advertising about specific campaign issues from the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns, I show that dialogue, as it is currently defined by campaigns and elections scholars, is as likely to harm voters as it is to help them. These findings require scholars to think more deeply…
Rethinking the Concept of Negativity
Over the last twenty years, there has been a tremendous amount written on “negativity” in political campaigns. Yet, there is a conceptual disconnect between the definition of negativity used by researchers and how citizens define negativity. In this article, we show how large this disparity is and what its consequences are. Using a nationally representative online survey of 17,400 Americans and nearly 100 scholars of American politics who viewed …
Playing with Emotions
The Nonlinear Effects of Political Advertising
Political communication scholars who study the persuasive effects of political advertising often assume that the relationship between advertising volume and vote choice is linear. Even though the product advertising literature has long recognized that advertising has both “wear in” and “wear out” effects, few political communication scholars consider this possibility. This study explains why it is both normatively and empirically important to det…
How Moral Value Commitments Shape Responses to Political Civility and Incivility
Citizen exposure to political incivility is increasing. Studies have found heterogeneous responses to incivility, but we know little about what drives this variation. This study investigates whether emotional responses to both civility and incivility are driven by moral value commitments. Drawing on Moral Foundations Theory, we argue that incivility should pose more of a threat to people who embrace an individualizing system of moral regulation t…
Local Norms, Political Partisanship, and Pandemic Response
A growing literature focuses on the role of political partisanship in shaping attitudes and behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. We provide a different perspective, by developing a theory of how partisanship interacts with another important factor that shapes how people think and behave in the context of the pandemic—local norms. Using a combination of survey data and a survey experiment, we demonstrate the importance of n…
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