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  • 7 - Politicians Are People, Too

  • Kevin Arceneaux, Sciences Po, Paris, Johanna Dunaway, Syracuse University, Martin Johnson, Louisiana State University, Ryan J. Vander Wielen, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  • Book:
    The House that Fox News Built?
    Published online:
    06 February 2025
    Print publication:
    13 February 2025, pp 118-132

  • Summary

    In this concluding chapter, we review our findings in the context of our initial pre-analysis plan and discuss the limitations of our studies. We then analyze the implications of our study and findings for their scholarly contributions and discuss next steps for future research. We conclude with a discussion of the normative implications of our findings. Despite the hubbub about Fox News being a bull-in-the-china shop, its effects on politicians were contingent on the context of the district they represented. Even if its effects were circumscribed, our evidence shows that the consequences were real. The implications of our findings are twofold. On the one hand, it throws some cold water on the popular notion that Fox News was a right-wing bulldozer that pulled American politics uniformly in a conservative direction. On the other hand, it makes clear that standard theoretical models of congressional behavior are founded on an assumption that, while useful, is most certainly flawed. Namely, politicians are not fully informed rational calculators. Politicians are people.