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
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:29765 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Contributors | Wintersieck, Amanda (Author), Fridkin, Kim L (Advisor), Kenney, Patrick (Committee member), Ramirez, Mark (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Dissertation |
| Format | 300 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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