Chapter Estimating the Effect of Voters’ Media Awareness on the 2016 US Presidential Election

We examine whether voter media awareness of the 2016 US Presidential election campaign influenced the election using a logit model to estimate the probability that a voter with certain characteristics votes for one of the two candidates. Our results indicate that the more active voters were on socia...

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description We examine whether voter media awareness of the 2016 US Presidential election campaign influenced the election using a logit model to estimate the probability that a voter with certain characteristics votes for one of the two candidates. Our results indicate that the more active voters were on social media, the more likely they were to vote for Trump, and the more aware they were of the electoral campaign (watching TV, listening to the radio, reading newspapers, etc.) and the more interested they were in the news/politics, the less likely they were to vote for Trump. The impact of these variables was not as important as their sociodemographic characteristics.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-704642025-08-13T14:11:57Z Chapter Estimating the Effect of Voters’ Media Awareness on the 2016 US Presidential Election Gallego, Maria Dique, Lauren 2016 US Presidential election, candidates’ and voters’ policy positions, voters’ awareness of the election, probability of voting, voters’ activity on social media, voters’ media interests on the campaign thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government We examine whether voter media awareness of the 2016 US Presidential election campaign influenced the election using a logit model to estimate the probability that a voter with certain characteristics votes for one of the two candidates. Our results indicate that the more active voters were on social media, the more likely they were to vote for Trump, and the more aware they were of the electoral campaign (watching TV, listening to the radio, reading newspapers, etc.) and the more interested they were in the news/politics, the less likely they were to vote for Trump. The impact of these variables was not as important as their sociodemographic characteristics. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2021-06-02T10:11:30Z 2019 chapter ONIX_20210602_10.5772/intechopen.80964_405 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49291 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/70464 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/49291/1/63783.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/49291/1/63783.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/49291/1/63783.pdf InTechOpen 10.5772/intechopen.80964 10.5772/intechopen.80964 035ecc65-6737-43cf-a13a-6bdf67ce01f4 open access
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Chapter Estimating the Effect of Voters’ Media Awareness on the 2016 US Presidential Election
title Chapter Estimating the Effect of Voters’ Media Awareness on the 2016 US Presidential Election
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title_short Chapter Estimating the Effect of Voters’ Media Awareness on the 2016 US Presidential Election
title_sort chapter estimating the effect of voters media awareness on the 2016 us presidential election
topic 2016 US Presidential election, candidates’ and voters’ policy positions, voters’ awareness of the election, probability of voting, voters’ activity on social media, voters’ media interests on the campaign
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