Testing the Social Construction of Rights and Media Coverage in an Age of Judicialization

越来越多地使用诉讼来制定政策被称为当代治理中最重要的发展之一，因为政治领域的利益集团现在经常求助于法院来实现他们的政策议程。所有这些诉讼的一个潜在后果与通过媒体传播有关公共政策的信息有关。这一研究项目将产生关于诉讼政策的媒体报道的新数据。通过统计和混合方法分析，研究结果将深入了解诉讼和媒体偏见如何影响有关政策的公共信息。该项目包括培养本科生和研究生在研究设计、数据收集和混合方法分析方面的实践。科学文献目前在媒体报道应如何与政策设计相互作用以及如何产生相互竞争的方法方面存在分歧。本项目通过对比工伤赔偿政策的覆盖范围来解决这一挑战，这些政策反映了对诉讼的不同依赖程度。具体来说，在一个重要的试点项目的基础上，它将收集国家新闻媒体在三个不同政策领域报道的原始数据。该项目将使用一系列经过验证的措施对个别新闻故事进行编码。该项目将使用多种方法分析这些数据，包括统计分析、混合方法比较案例研究和深入的内容解释分析。

The rising use of litigation to make policy has been called one of the most important developments in contemporary governance, as interest groups across the political spectrum now routinely turn to the courts to pursue their policy agendas. One potential consequence of all of this litigation relates to the dissemination of information about public policies through the media. This research project will generate new data on media coverage of litigation-based policies. Using statistical and mixed-method analysis, the findings will provide insights into how litigation and media biases influence public information about policy. The project includes training undergraduate and graduate students in the practice of research design, data collection and mixed-method analysis.The scientific literature is currently divided on how media coverage should interact with policy design and it generates competing approaches. This project addresses this challenge by contrasting coverage of injury compensation policies that reflect differing levels of reliance on litigation. Specifically, building on a significant pilot project, it will collect original data on newspaper stories in 3 distinct policy areas as presented in national news outlets. The project will code individual news stories using a series of validated measures. The project will analyze these data using multiple methods, including statistical analysis, mixed-method comparative case studies, and in-depth interpretive analyses of content.