Post-Broadcast Democracy: How Media Choice

The media environment is changing. Today in the United States, the average viewer can choose from hundreds of channels, including several twenty-four hour news channels. News is on cell phones, on iPods, and online; it has become a ubiquitous and unavoidable reality in modern society. The purpose of this book is to examine systematically, how these differences in access and form of media affect political behaviour. Using experiments and new survey data, it shows how changes in the media environment reverberate through the political system, affecting news exposure, political learning, turnout, and voting behaviour.

Markus Prior is an assistant professor of politics and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

List of Tables	p. xi
List of Figures	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Conditional Political Learning	p. 27
The Participatory Effects of Media Choice
Broadcast Television, Political Knowledge, and Turnout	p. 55
Appendix to Chapter 3: Measuring Political Knowledge, Nes 1952-1968	p. 92
From Low Choice to High Choice: The Impact of Cable Television and Internet on News Exposure, Political Knowledge, and Turnout	p. 94
Appendix to Chapter 4: Description of Knowledge Measures	p. 138
From Low Choice to High Choice: Does Greater Media Choice Affect Total News Consumption and Average Turnout?	p. 142
The Political Effects of Media Choice
Broadcast Television, Partisanship, and the Incumbency Advantage	p. 163
Partisan Polarization in the High-Choice Media Environment	p. 214
Appendix to Chapter 7: Using a Selection Model to Simulate Partisan Vote Strength in the Full Electorate	p. 249
Divided by Choice: Audience Fragmentation and Political Inequality in the Post-Broadcast Media Environment	p. 255
References	p. 289
Index	p. 309
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Post-Broadcast Democracy: How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections

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