Dumbing down?: Trends in the complexity of political communication

• Main Authors: BENOIT, Kenneth, MUNGER, Kevin, SPIRLING, Arthur
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• 主題: Dumbing down; Measurement; Political communication; Political methodology; State of the Union; Text as data; Political Science; Social Influence and Political Communication
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3975; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5233/viewcontent/BenoitMungerSpirling_SSRCchapter.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

Commentators and some political scholars claim to have observed a “dumbing down” in the level of sophistication of political language, leading to anxiety over the quality of democratic deliberation, knowledge, policy design, and implementation. This work typically focuses on the president’s State of...