The recent spate of mass public shootings in the United States raises important questions about how these tragic events might impact mass opinion and public policy. Integrating research on focusing events, contextual effects and perceived threat, this article...
We demonstrate that prior event exposures in panel data are a serious concern for identifying ‘causal’ effects. We re-analyzed the 2010–14 (3-wave) and 2010–12 (2-wave) CCES panel datasets and find that our original conclusions hold (see Newman and Hartman, 2017):...
