Following the Ticker
The Political Origins and Consequences of Stock Market Perceptions
- 272 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Traces the influence of the stock market on Americans' beliefs about politics.
Drawing on a wide variety of empirical methodologies, including large-scale survey analysis, survey experiments, and content analyses, Following the Ticker explores the complex relationship between stock market performance and political judgments through distinctive patterns of coverage in American news media. Building an eclectic theory that explores the interplay between media agenda-setting and partisan motivated reasoning, author Ian G. Anson helps to explain why the stock market increasingly occupies the minds of Americans when they evaluate the performance of incumbent presidents. In doing so, Following the Ticker contributes to a growing literature exploring the links between public opinion and economic inequality in American society. Because "the stock market is not the economy," the increasing salience of the stock market as a source of political judgments reflects a worrying development for classic models of democratic accountability.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Data-Driven Agenda Setting: How Stock Market Indicators Shape Citizen Perceptions
- Chapter 2 “Following the Ticker”: Media Agenda Setting and Stock Market Data
- Chapter 3 Grappling with Bulls and Bears: How Congress Discusses the Economy
- Chapter 4 The Politicization of Stock Market Perceptions
- Chapter 5 Framing the Stock Market: Experimental Evidence
- Conclusions
- Appendices
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Back Cover