Dumbing down?: Trends in the complexity of political communication

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: BENOIT, Kenneth, MUNGER, Kevin, SPIRLING, Arthur
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• الموضوعات: Dumbing down; Measurement; Political communication; Political methodology; State of the Union; Text as data; Political Science; Social Influence and Political Communication
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3975; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5233/viewcontent/BenoitMungerSpirling_SSRCchapter.pdf

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...