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Framing the Covid-19 Pandemic : = Examining Policy Elite Framing Strategies and Their Influence on Public Understandings of Pandemic Policy Issues.

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Title/Author:	Framing the Covid-19 Pandemic :/
Reminder of title:	Examining Policy Elite Framing Strategies and Their Influence on Public Understandings of Pandemic Policy Issues.
Author:	Minkowitz, Honey.
Description:	1 online resource (258 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-11B.
Subject:	Public opinion. -
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ISBN:	9798382624235

Framing the Covid-19 Pandemic : = Examining Policy Elite Framing Strategies and Their Influence on Public Understandings of Pandemic Policy Issues.
Minkowitz, Honey.

Framing the Covid-19 Pandemic :Examining Policy Elite Framing Strategies and Their Influence on Public Understandings of Pandemic Policy Issues. - 1 online resource (258 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--North Carolina State University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the public sought guidance from political leaders and appeared to progressively echo their communication regarding policy matters. On various media platforms, Democratic and Republican policy elites addressed distinct topics. Democrats focused on public health and social welfare, whereas Republicans delved into issues of freedom and the economy. Consequently, this communication influenced individual risk mitigation behavior, such as their willingness to engage in social distancing, wear masks, and receive the vaccine.Numerous studies attribute the replication of elite messages concerning COVID-19 to political polarization and the influence of media echo chambers. Despite the abundance of descriptive COVID-19 studies, many have yet to elucidate the mechanisms behind how or why the public embraced policy elite frames, a message emphasizing a particular definition of the policy issue. This research draws on the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) and Framing Theory to understand 1) the determinants of presidential and legislative frames, 2) the strategic use of frames, and 3) the determinants for engaging framing strategies. I devised four studies across two macropolitical institutions for this research and assembled three separate datasets to address the research aims. The first dataset covered a year's worth of speeches delivered by President Trump and a year's worth of speeches given by President Biden throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The second dataset consisted of two years of floor debates from the House of Representatives, featuring a selection of legislators from ten states. The third and final dataset was generated by administering an original survey to a representative sample of individuals via the Prolific platform.The initial study examined the factors influencing the framing employed by presidential and congressional figures, a concept referred to as frame building. In Chapters 2 and 3, 1 discovered that the events and political indicators policy elites paid attention to were largely in syne with partisan priorities. This suggests that partisan beliefs played a role in directing individuals' attention toward political and COVID-19-related information.The second study investigated the utilization and factors influencing two framing strategies, namely frame ambiguity and the change of dimension of judgment (CDJ) heresthetics. These strategies were employed by President Trump. President Biden, and legislators in the House of Representatives. Frame ambiguity pertains to the use of incomplete or partial frames, while a comprehensive frame encompasses both a policy issue and its associated solution. CDJ heresthetics involve altering the framing of an argument. My findings revealed that ambiguity and heresthetics were deployed by presidents and political coalitions in response to political and pandemic-related information.The third study investigated the transmission of presidential framing to the public. Building upon previous findings regarding the use of frame ambiguity by presidents, this study sought to elucidate the mechanisms behind the public's adoption of COVID-19 policy issue frames. What I uncovered was that having a connection with a policy elite was a vital factor for adopting their communication. Furthermore, I found that President Trump's influence predicted severe COVID-19 experiences, but the severity of COVID-19 experiences did not predict the adoption of President Trump's frames. This suggests that the public internalizes strategies employed by policy elites embedded within policy narratives, underscoring the significant persuasive power of political figures.

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ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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