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Tim Groseclose

Disciplines:
political science
george mason
stanford/ucla
journalism/media bias

Summary

American political scientist — author of Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind — whose quantitative research at UCLA produced the most rigorous academic measurement of media political bias.

Core Contribution

Creates the quantitative media bias measurement methodology — Groseclose and Milyo's political science methodology (comparing media outlet citations of think tanks and political figures to the citation patterns of members of Congress with known political positions) is the most methodologically rigorous academic attempt to measure media bias.

Notable Works & Achievements

Left Turn

Historical Influences

Economics methodology

Intellectual Lineage

UCLA Stanford

Contemporaries & Peers

Jeffrey MilyoMatthew Gentzkow

Minds Influenced

Media bias research

Intellectual Posterity

Left Turn Media bias quotient methodology

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