Despite generations of research, political scientists have trouble pinpointing the influence of
political parties on public opinion. Recently, scholars have made headway in exploring …

Research on political communication effects has enjoyed great progress over the past 25
years. A key ingredient underlying these advances is the increased usage of experiments …

Research on framing effects has demonstrated how elites can influence public opinion by
the way they present and interpret political issues. However, these findings overwhelmingly …

Politicians often support policies that diverge from public preferences. How effectively can
partisan cues lead public opinion in these settings? Using survey experiments that examine …

How powerful are political parties in shaping citizens' opinions? Despite long‐standing
interest in the flow of influence between partisan elites and citizens, few studies to date …

Citizens in representative democracies receive party endorsements and policy information
when choosing candidates or making policy decisions via the initiative process. What effects …

A large literature argues that public opinion is vulnerable to various types of framing and cue
effects. However, we lack evidence on whether existing findings, which are typically based …

This dissertation contains three parts—three papers. The first is about the effects of party
cues on policy attitudes and candidate preferences. The second is about the resilience of …

Much research in the communication and political science fields—political communication
research being no exception—seeks to establish the extent to which certain communication …

Economic interests and party identification are two key, long-standing factors that shape
people's attitudes on government policy. Recent research has increasingly focused on how …