🗞️ Happy to finally share this special review, out in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social. Special thanks to @vstetka.bsky.social @sabinamihelj.bsky.social @newsprof1.bsky.social @martinscott2010.bsky.social @melbunce.bsky.social, and thanks for inviting me @jeffpoole.bsky.social @sonnevend.bsky.social! 👉👉

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One more nugget: the average conservative MP agreed ('24) that 'it is acceptable for government ministers to use announcements about overseas aid spending to advance their own political careers'. That is... in some tension with the ministerial code.

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That is correlated with thinking the media shapes public opinion, and (to a lesser extent) that it reflects public opinion. In essence, politicians tend to think the media is powerful and should affect aid decisions, and so it does. The public do not share these views.

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New paper with @martinscott2010.bsky.social on development aid, politician's decisions and media influence. Aid allocation research tends to focus on how the aid budget gets divided. We look at how politicians make decisions about the size of the aid budget. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Bittersweet to have won ISA's Best Book in International Communication,together with @martinscott2010.bsky.social & @melbunce.bsky.social for Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America (OUP 2024). Huge honour, but we would have loved things to have got better, not worse.

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