A Tale of Two Cues: The Impact of Subliminal and Implicit Appeals for Racialized Issue Opinion

Palmer, Carl L.

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“…Communication frames can “activate existing beliefs and cognitions.” 177 For instance, Nelson and Kinder as noted find that “[a]rguments or images that spotlight social groups may activate stereotypes and prejudices,” 178 an effect involving “emphasis frames” 179,180 that is also found by others. 181,182,183,184 Such effects can be sufficiently strong that, as Nelson and Kinder say, “[g]roup sentiments…become the dominant guideposts for the evaluation of public policy,” 185 a point Jacoby also suggests. 186 While “not inevitable,” 187 elite—and arguably media—commun- ication frames can encourage this outcome.…”

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“…177 For instance, Nelson and Kinder as noted find that ''[a]rguments or images that spotlight social groups may activate stereotypes and prejudices,'' 178 an effect involving ''emphasis frames'' 179,180 that is also found by others. 181,182,183,184 mçäáíáÅë~åÇ íÜÉ iáÑÉ pÅáÉåÅÉë • c~ää OMNR • îçäK PQI åçK O Such effects can be sufficiently strong that, as Nelson and Kinder say, ''[g]roup sentiments. .…”

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Are press depictions of Affordable Care Act beneficiaries favorable to policy durability?

Chattopadhyay

2015

Politics and the Life Sciences

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ABSTRACT. Background: If successfully implemented and enduring, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) stands to expand health insurance access in absolute terms, reduce inter-group disparities in that access, and reduce exposure to the financial vulnerabilities illness entails. Its durability-meaning both avoidance of outright retrenchment and fidelity to its policy aims-is thus of scholarly interest. Past literature suggests that social constructions of a policy's beneficiaries may impact durability.Questions: This paper first describes media portrayals of ACA beneficiaries with an eye toward answering three descriptive questions: (1) Do portrayals depict beneficiaries as economically heterogeneous? (2) Do portrayals focus attention on groups that have acquired new political relevance due to the ACA, such as young adults? (3) What themes that have served as messages about beneficiary ''deservingness'' in past social policy are most frequent in ACA beneficiary portrayals? The paper then assesses how the portrayal patterns that these questions uncover may work both for and against the ACA's durability, finding reasons for confidence as well as caution. Methods Implications and Conclusions:Existing literature suggests that these portrayal patterns may both support and limit ACA durability. In favor of durability is that ACA beneficiaries are depicted in terms that have been associated with deservingness in past American social policy-particularly being cast as workers and insiders. Yet, the results also give three reasons for caution. First, ACA insurance-losers are also portrayed as deserving. Second, it is unclear how the portrayal patterns found may impact the durability of the ACA's efforts to cut insurance disparities by age, health status, and especially race/ethnicity. Third, portrayals' strong casting of beneficiaries as workers, and limited attention to beneficiaries' economic heterogeneity and to young adults, may do little to help cultivate beneficiary political engagement around the ACA.

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Section: Background: Motivations and Foundational Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Evidence That Social Constructions Can Operate On Thoughts Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Are press depictions of Affordable Care Act beneficiaries favorable to policy durability?

Chattopadhyay

2015

Politics and the Life Sciences

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A Tale of Two Cues: The Impact of Subliminal and Implicit Appeals for Racialized Issue Opinion

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Are press depictions of Affordable Care Act beneficiaries favorable to policy durability?

Are press depictions of Affordable Care Act beneficiaries favorable to policy durability?

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