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Combative Politics

Combative Politics

The Media and Public Perceptions of Lawmaking

MARY LAYTON ATKINSON

The University of Chicago Press

CHICAGO & LONDON

The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London

2017 by The University of Chicago

All rights reserved. Published 2017

Printed in the United States of America

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ISBN -13: 978-0-226-44189-4 (cloth)

ISBN -13: 978-0-226-44192-4 (paper)

ISBN -13: 978-0-226-44208-2 (e-book)

DOI : 10.7208/chicago/9780226442082.001.0001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Atkinson, Mary Layton, author.

Title: Combative politics : the media and public perceptions of lawmaking / Mary Layton Atkinson.

Description: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016037670 | ISBN 9780226441894 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226441924 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226442082 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH : Mass mediaPolitical aspectsUnited States. | Political partiesPress coverageUnited States.

Classification: LCC P 95.82. U 6 A 86 2017 | DDC 302.23/0973dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016037670

This paper meets the requirements of ANSI / NISO Z 39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).

For Tim

Contents

This book has been many, many years in the making. I have been incredibly fortunate to have the encouragement and guidance of several mentors, colleagues, and family members along the way, without which this project would not have come to fruition. Several programs of the Political Science Department at UNCChapel Hill, including the American Politics Research Group (APRG), the George Rabinowitz Seminar, and the Thomas M. Uhlman Graduate Fund, also supported my work. APRG and the Uhlman Fund provided summer research stipends and travel awards that helped to support this research. The George Rabinowitz Seminar graciously provided numerous opportunities to present early drafts of the dissertation chapters. The seminars participantsand its namesake in particularoffered feedback that has dramatically improved the quality of the project.

I have had the pleasure of working with several research assistants who dedicated hours and hours of their lives to coding the New York Times data described here. I appreciate the hard work and dedication to the project offered by Anna Dietrich, Lindsay Tello, Linden Wait, and Jazmine Walker. Additional research assistance was provided by graduate assistants Jenny Kaemmerlen, Tracy Martin Nash, and Tonderai Mushipe. I am thankful to each of them for their attention to detail and their can-do attitudes.

I owe a huge debt of gratitude to my sister, Katharine Atkinson Quince, who painstakingly copyedited the manuscript before it went out for review. Only a sister would do such a thing out of the goodness of her heart. I truly appreciate her time, love, and use of the Oxford comma.

I am so grateful for the feedback provided by Amber Boydstun, Justin Gross, Daniele Kreiss, Mike MacKuen, Jason Roberts, Brian Schaffner, Jim Stimson, and two anonymous reviewers who read and commented on drafts of the manuscript. Their insights improved the work immeasurably. I also owe special thanks to the members of the Political Science Department at UNCCharlotte, especially Martha Kropf, Cherie Maestas, John Szmer, Jim Walsh, and Greg Weeks. They were a tremendous source of advice and support. Cherie also generously read chapter drafts and helped me develop the book proposal. I could not ask for better colleagues and know that the revision process would have been much slower and much more painful without them.

I wish to extend wholehearted thanks to Frank Baumgartner for the many contributions he has made to the success of this project. To say that he has been generous with his time and resources would be a gross understatement. In fact, Ive been known to affectionately refer him as Obi-Wan when hes not around because of everything hes done to train me in the ways of the academic force. (I guess the secret is out now.) Over the years, Frank has read countless drafts of chaptersalways offering thorough, insightful, and remarkably fast feedbackand read the manuscript in its entirety before it went out for review. Moreover, he has never failed to provide advice, support, and tough love when Ive needed it. In his own words, I have in Frank a mentor for lifesomething few people can say and something for which I am truly grateful.

I also owe special thanks to my cheering squadmy amazing family members who have supported me in this endeavor from start to finish. My fantastic in-laws, Sue Wood, Greg Paulson, and Jane Pugliese, have encouraged me with the same love and enthusiasm that they show their children. My parents, Linda and Jim Strong, and Jerry and Robin Atkinson, have always believed I could accomplish anything I put my mind to. They have celebrated all the small victories along the way to the publication of this book, from conference papers given, to chapters completed, and on and on. Their unwavering belief that the project would be a success helped me will this book into existence. I am so grateful for their love and support.

Finally, this book is dedicated to my amazing husband, Tim Paulson. Tim has been there from beginning to end, doing anything and everything humanly possible to help me along on this journey. He has uprooted himself twice in the past eight years for the sake of my career. Both times, he viewed the moves as an adventure and remained positiveeven while commuting four hours a day to his old job after our move to Charlotte. He has been my sounding board, my editor, my graphic designer, my tech support, and, most of all, he has been an endless well of optimism and encouragement that I have drawn on innumerable times. Simply put, this book is as much Tims as it is mine. It would not have been possible without him. Thank you Timmy, for everything!

Support for the Substantive Provisions of NCLB

Application of Conflict Codes, across Issue Areas and Article Type

Spending and Economic Codes, across Issue Areas and Article Type

Substance Focus and Human Interest Codes, across Issue Areas and Article Type

Description of Experimental Treatments

Proportion of Respondents Who Agree that the Policy-Making Process Is Broken, by Treatment Group (student data)

Likelihood of Believing the Process Is Broken (student data)

Average Ideological Placement of Bill on a Seven-Point Scale (student data)

Absolute Value of Distance between Ideological Self-Placement and Placement of Bill (student data)

Proportion of Respondents Who Support the Bill (student data)

Proportion of Respondents Who Support the Education Bill, by Party (student data)

Support for the Education Bill (student data)

Why Do You Believe the Process Is Broken? (CCES data)

Average Ideological Placement of Bill on a Seven-Point Scale, by Treatment Group (CCES data)

Model Estimating the Absolute Value of the Difference between Bill and Self-Ideology (CCES data)

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