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The Rise and Impact of Fact-Checking in U.S. Campaigns

abstract: Do fact-checks influence individuals' attitudes and evaluations of political candidates and campaign messages? This dissertation examines the influence of fact-checks on citizens' evaluations of political candidates. Using an original content analysis, I determine who conducts fact-checks of candidates for political office, who is being fact-checked, and how fact-checkers rate political candidates' level of truthfulness. Additionally, I employ three experiments to evaluate the impact of fact-checks source and message cues on voters' evaluations of candidates for political office. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Political Science 2015

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:29765
Date January 2015
ContributorsWintersieck, Amanda (Author), Fridkin, Kim L (Advisor), Kenney, Patrick (Committee member), Ramirez, Mark (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDoctoral Dissertation
Format300 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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