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2023

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57
Citations
18476
World Ranking
139
National Ranking
85

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award

Overview

Stuart Soroka is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with significant contributions to sociology, political science, and communication.

Their recent scholarly output includes publications in notable journals such as:

  • Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News Coverage, 2020, Science Communication
  • Politicization and Polarization in Climate Change News Content, 1985-2017, 2020, Science Communication
  • Netflix, Library Analysis, and Globalization: Rethinking Mass Media Flows, 2022, Journal of Communication
  • Negativity Biases and Political Ideology: A Comparative Test Across 17 Countries, 2020, American Political Science Review
  • Social Media and the Changing Information Environment, 2020, Public Opinion Quarterly

Soroka's frequent coauthors include:

  • Patrick Fournier
  • Christopher Wlezien
  • Lilach Nir
  • Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice
  • Arthur Lupia

The scholar has published heavily through Harvard Dataverse, with 25 publications credited there, alongside other venues such as:

  • Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications
  • Science Communication
  • American Political Science Review
  • Canadian Journal of Political Science

In addition to journal articles, Soroka has authored books published by Cambridge University Press, including:

  • Information and Democracy, 2022
  • The Increasing Viability of Good News, 2021

The main fields of study associated with Soroka's work include:

  • Social Sciences

Key subfields in which Soroka's research contributions are prominent include:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Communication
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Areas central to their work encompass topics such as:

  • Social Media and Politics
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Computational and Text Analysis Methods

Best Publications

  • Degrees of democracy

    Stuart N. Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

  • Degrees of Democracy: Politics, Public Opinion, and Policy

    Stuart Neil Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

  • Good News and Bad News: Asymmetric Responses to Economic Information

    Stuart N. Soroka

  • When Does Diversity Erode Trust? Neighborhood Diversity, Interpersonal Trust and the Mediating Effect of Social Interactions

    Dietlind Stolle;Stuart Soroka;Richard Johnston

  • Affective News: The Automated Coding of Sentiment in Political Texts

    Lori Young;Stuart Soroka

  • Agenda-setting dynamics in Canada

    Stuart Neil Soroka

  • Public Opinion and Public Policy

    Stuart N. Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

  • Issue Attributes and Agenda‐Setting by Media, the Public, and Policymakers in Canada

    Stuart N. Soroka

  • Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News Coverage

    P. Sol Hart;Sedona Chinn;Stuart Soroka

  • Media, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy

    Stuart N. Soroka

  • The Mass Media's Political Agenda-Setting Power: A Longitudinal Analysis of Media, Parliament, and Government in Belgium (1993 to 2000)

    Stefaan Walgrave;Stuart Soroka;Michiel Nuytemans

  • Do Multiculturalism policies erode the welfare state? An empirical analysis

    Keith Banting;Richard Johnston;Will Kymlicka;Stuart Soroka

  • News, Politics, and Negativity

    Stuart Soroka;Stephen McAdams

  • Negativity in Democratic Politics: Causes and Consequences

    Stuart Neil Soroka

  • A General Empirical Law of Public Budgets: A Comparative Analysis

    Bryan Davidson Jones;Frank R. Baumgartner;Christian Breunig;Christopher Wlezien

  • Opinion–Policy Dynamics: Public Preferences and Public Expenditure in the United Kingdom

    Stuart N. Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

  • Consumer Demand for Cynical and Negative News Frames

    Marc Trussler;Stuart Soroka

  • The Gatekeeping Function: Distributions of Information in Media and the Real World

    Stuart N. Soroka

  • Cross-national evidence of a negativity bias in psychophysiological reactions to news

    Stuart Soroka;Patrick Fournier;Lilach Nir

  • Negativity in Democratic Politics

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  • On the limits to inequality in representation

    Stuart N. Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

  • Political Institutions and the Opinion–Policy Link

    Christopher Wlezien;Stuart N. Soroka

  • Opinion Representation and Policy Feedback: Canada in Comparative Perspective

    Stuart N. Soroka;Christopher Wlezien

  • Politicization and Polarization in Climate Change News Content, 1985-2017:

    Sedona Chinn;P. Sol Hart;Stuart Soroka

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Wlezien
Christopher Wlezien The University of Texas at Austin
Shanto Iyengar
Shanto Iyengar Stanford University
Richard Johnston
Richard Johnston University of British Columbia
Keith G. Banting
Keith G. Banting Queen's University
Toril Aalberg
Toril Aalberg Norwegian University of Science and Technology
David Rowe
David Rowe Western Sydney University
James Curran
James Curran University of Sydney
Stefaan Walgrave
Stefaan Walgrave University of Antwerp
Will Kymlicka
Will Kymlicka Queen's University
Nicholas A. Valentino
Nicholas A. Valentino University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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