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Public opinion as nowcast: consistency and the role of news uncertainty.
- Source :
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Journal of Mathematical Sociology . 2021, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p100-110. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The purpose of this note is to consider the effect of perception noise when voters form public opinions. We provide a simple theoretical framework that will form the basis to investigate empirically the effect of news uncertainty on voters' attentiveness when forming public opinion, or nowcasts. An attentive voter will consistently update their information set. Therefore, if voters' nowcasts are consistent, any revision of the nowcasts must only reflect new information. We specifically consider how news uncertainty may affect voter attentiveness. The paper focuses on US presidential competence and popularity indices. We find that the nowcasts are consistent during periods of low news uncertainty but highly persistent when news uncertainty is high. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PUBLIC opinion
*UNCERTAINTY
*PUBLIC opinion polls
*TIME series analysis
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0022250X
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Mathematical Sociology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 149843287
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0022250X.2020.1732371