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Kim Fridkin Kahn
Researcher at Arizona State University
Publications - 23
Citations - 2574
Kim Fridkin Kahn is an academic researcher from Arizona State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: News media & Negative campaigning. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 23 publications receiving 2450 citations.
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Do Negative Campaigns Mobilize or Suppress Turnout? Clarifying the Relationship between Negativity and Participation
TL;DR: This article found that people distinguish between useful negative information presented in an appropriate manner and irrelevant and harsh mudslinging, and that when campaigns degenerate into unsubstantiated and shrill attacks, voters tend to stay home.
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Women candidates in the news: an examination of gender differences in u.s. senate campaign coverage
TL;DR: The authors found that female candidates for the U.S. Senate receive less news coverage and the coverage they do receive concentrates more on their viability and less on their issue positions, and female candidates' viability coverage is more negative than that of their male counterparts.
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The Distorted Mirror: Press Coverage of Women Candidates for Statewide Office
TL;DR: A content analysis of newspaper coverage in 47 statewide campaigns between 1982 and 1988 shows that the press differentiate between male and female candidates in their campaign coverage as discussed by the authors, and women receive consistently less issue attention than their male counterparts.
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Does Gender Make a Difference? An Experimental Examination of Sex Stereotypes and Press Patterns in Statewide Campaigns
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that gender differences in news coverage and the candidates' sex influence people's perceptions of gubernatorial and senatorial candidates, and that these differences in coverage patterns lead to important disadvantages for female senatorsial candidates.
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Does Being Male Help? An Investigation of the Effects of Candidate Gender and Campaign Coverage on Evaluations of U.S. Senate Candidates
TL;DR: A content analysis of newspaper coverage of U.S. Senate campaigns showed that male and female Senate candidates are covered differently in the news as mentioned in this paper, and the consequences of these differences in coverage, as well as the significance of the candidates' gender, for evaluations of Senate candidates.