Student or educator? Sign up with your school email and get 6 months of Pro free.
CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 515

The DOI matches its Crossref record.

Framing Responsibility for Political Issues

IYENGAR, SHANTO·1996·The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
DOI 10.1177/0002716296546001006
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

This article examines the influence of television news on viewers' attributions of responsibility for political issues. Television's systematic reliance on episodic as opposed to thematic depictions of political life elicits individualistic attributions of responsibility for national problems such as poverty and terrorism. These attributions emphasize the actions of private rather than governmental actors. By obscuring the connections between political problems and the actions or inactions of political leaders, television news trivializes political discourse and weakens the accountability of elected officials.

Overview

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1177/0002716296546001006

Cites

Statistics

Verification

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Citations

Cited by

See all 515

Metadata

Authors
IYENGAR, S.
Venue
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1996-07
Volume
546
Issue
1
Pages
59-70
ISSN
  • 0002-7162 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-3349
DOI
10.1177/0002716296546001006
OpenAlex
W2170931476
Cited by
515
References
0
FWCI
3.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

How to cite

Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.

This page
CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Framing Responsibility for Political Issues. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1177/0002716296546001006
The paper
IYENGAR, S. (1996). Framing Responsibility for Political Issues. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716296546001006

Data sources

Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.

Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).

Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.