dc.creator | Trussler, Marc James | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-22T20:47:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-16 | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-08-16 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-08152019-135711 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13910 | |
dc.description.abstract | In a series of three articles I demonstrate that a plausible explanation for political "nationalization" is an increasingly dense information environment. Nationalization occurs when all political decisions -- for both voters and legislators -- are made on one plane of partisan conflict. Leveraging the geographic roll-out of broadband in the first decade of the 21st century, I show how technologies like the internet alter our politics through their effects on our information environment. In Chapter 1, I show that expanding broadband increased the impact of national forces in House elections: voters cast less split tickets, return incumbents to office with a smaller advantage, and are less likely to punish legislators for excessively partisan roll-call voting. In Chapter 2, I turn my focus to legislators, showing that increasing broadband in their districts causes them to vote more in line with national forces: their parties, the President, and ideologically aligned interest groups. Finally, in Chapter 3, I focus in on local newspapers. I show that newspapers exposed to broadband systematically alter their content, writing more articles about the President relative to local members of Congress. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.subject | Accountability | |
dc.subject | Representation | |
dc.subject | Congress | |
dc.subject | Political Communication | |
dc.title | The Impact of High Information Environments on Representation in the U.S. House of Representatives | |
dc.type | dissertation | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Yphtach Lelkes | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Cindy D. Kam | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Larry M. Bartels | |
dc.type.material | text | |
thesis.degree.name | PHD | |
thesis.degree.level | dissertation | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Political Science | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Vanderbilt University | |
local.embargo.terms | 2019-08-16 | |
local.embargo.lift | 2019-08-16 | |
dc.contributor.committeeChair | Joshua D. Clinton | |