Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
A lack of trust in the election processes and public policy systems challenges an integralpart of America’s representative democracy: free and fair elections. When citizens feeldisenfranchised, the damage to democracy can be significant. If left unchanged, or if itgets worse, the consequences for democracy can be severe as citizens increasinglybecome disenfranchised. The impact of the media on then-Trump supporters for the 2020election and whether the mischaracterization of Trump supporters by the medianegatively affected those voters’ sense of connection to government and public policyprocesses was analyzed. The goal was to determine if Trump voters felt the mediamischaracterized them and what that impact was on their trust in government institutions,public policy, and other areas of their lives. The theoretical foundation, the narrativepolicy framework (NPF), was used to analyze the narratives from interviews of 20 White,male Trump voters aged 30-65 in response to a series of questions asking how they feltthe media characterized them. The study’s key results were that 82% of the participantsfelt disenfranchised by how the media framed them as voters. The NPF plot categoriesthat were dominant were 'Story of Helplessness and a Lack of Control' (35%) and'Story of Decline' (34%). The positive social change implications include exploringpotential issues with how the media affects essential political and policy discourse andproviding the insights to build towards progress with media characterizations’ negativeimpact on citizen connectedness to policymaking, legislative processes, elections, anddemocracy.
