Elevating Education in Politics: How Teacher Strikes Shape Congressional Election Campaigns. EdWorkingPaper No. 21-482

Autor/inn/en	Lyon, Melissa Arnold; Kraft, Matthew A.
Institution	Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Titel	Elevating Education in Politics: How Teacher Strikes Shape Congressional Election Campaigns. EdWorkingPaper No. 21-482
Quelle	(2021), (60 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Politics of Education; Teacher Strikes; Legislators; Political Campaigns; Advertising; Political Candidates; Political Issues; Content Analysis; Unions + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Lehrerstreik; Werbung; Politischer Faktor; Inhaltsanalyse
Abstract	Teacher strikes have gained national attention with the "#RedforEd" movement. Such strikes are polarizing events that could serve to elevate education as a political priority or cast education politics in a negative light. We investigate this empirically by collecting original panel data on U.S. teacher strikes, which we link to congressional election campaign advertisements. Election ads provide a useful window into political discourse because they are costly to sponsors, consequential for voter behavior, and predictive of future legislative agendas. Using a differences-in-differences framework, we find that teacher strikes dramatically increase education issue salience, with impacts concentrated among positively-framed ads. Effects are driven by strikes lasting only a few days and occurring in battleground areas with highly-contested elections. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01