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Ahn, T.K.., Huckfeldt, Robert. and Ryan, John. "Networks, Groups, and Contextual Constraints on Political Communication" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209386_index.html>

Ahn, T. , Huckfeldt, R. and Ryan, J. B. , 2007-08-30 "Networks, Groups, and Contextual Constraints on Political Communication" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209386_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: One way for citizens to minimize information costs is to obtain political guidance on the cheap, from other individuals who have assumed the costs of acquiring and processing political information. A problem occurs because ideal informants, characterized by the joint presence of political expertise and shared viewpoints, are often unavailable or rare within the groups where individuals are located. Hence, individuals must often look beyond their own group boundaries to find such individuals, but obtaining information from individuals located beyond their own groups produces additional information costs. Our paper explores the consequences of availability for the formation of political communication networks among cost conscious consumers of political information. The paper’s analysis is based on a series of small group experiments, each of which involves two groups of seven subjects who communicate with one another via networked computers in order to obtain information on candidates. Individuals are able to obtain information from as many as two other subjects, but the information obtained from individuals within their own group is free, while information obtained from the other group is more costly. This analytic framework provides an opportunity to examine the construction and consequences of social networks within and beyond group boundaries.

Heuristic and Systematic Biased Processing of Political Messages: Effects of Candidate Preference and the Level of Interest in Politics on Attitudes toward Issues

When cues collide: Predicting candidate preference in a low-information environment with group characteristics, explicit measures, and implicit measures of group sentiments