An experimental investigation of the effects of interest-group endorsements on poorly aligned partisans in the 2008 presidential election

Neddenriep, Gregory; Nownes, Anthony J.

doi:10.1177/1354068811436067

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“…In fact, a few earlier studies found a cueing effect for interest groups (Lupia ; Arceneaux & Kolodny ; Neddenriep & Nownes ). These studies, however, did not distinguish between the impact of the source cue and the argument transmitted by groups.…”

Section: Interest Group Influence On Public Opinionmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…In fact, Arceneaux and Kolodny (: 759) explicitly state that their study design does not allow them to distinguish between the effect of the source cue and the message transmitted by the source. Similarly, in their study of the effect of interest group endorsements of presidential candidates, Neddenriep and Nownes () confronted their subjects with interest group endorsements that also contained information about the candidates’ stance on abortion.…”

Section: Interest Group Influence On Public Opinionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A few studies also look at the impact of interest group endorsements on support for specific political candidates (Arceneaux & Kolodny ; Weber et al. ; Neddenriep & Nownes ). Most of them find that interest groups can influence vote choices.…”

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How interest groups influence public opinion: Arguments matter more than the sources

Dür

2018

European J Political Res

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Through what mechanism do interest groups shape public opinion on concrete policies? In this article, three hypotheses are proposed that distinguish between the effect of the arguments conveyed by interest groups and the effect of interest groups as source cues. Two survey experiments on the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TIPP) and the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change allow the testing of these hypotheses. The resulting evidence from several countries shows that, with respect to interest groups’ attempts at shaping public opinion, arguments matter more than their sources. This is so even when accounting for people's trust in the interest groups that serve as source cues and for people's level of information about a policy. The finding that interest groups affect public opinion via arguments rather than as source cues has implications for the literature on elite influence on public opinion and the normative evaluation of interest group activities.

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Section: Interest Group Influence On Public Opinionmentioning

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How interest groups influence public opinion: Arguments matter more than the sources

Dür

2018

European J Political Res

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“…Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 Allows banks of sufficient size to take additional risk, and limits the power of the 2009)'s and Neddenriep and Nownes (2014) studies of the effects of endorsements by abortion groups, although these studies also give subjects additional information beyond the SIGs' ratings, making it difficult to disentangle the impact of the SIGs' rating or endorsement.…”

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Heuristic Projection: How Interest Group Cues Can Undermine Democratic Accountability

Broockman¹,

Lenz²,

Kaufman³

2020

Preprint

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How can voters who know little about their representatives’ actions hold them accountable? An influential perspective contends that voters rely on cues from interest groups to act as if they were informed. We argue that interest group cues can also have pathological effects on voters’ judgments. When voters know little about interest group reputations, we argue, then voters may naively assume interest groups share their policy views. Interest groups may foster such misperceptions by adopting ambiguously positive names, such as FreedomWorks. When groups positively rate voters’ representatives, voters may therefore infer they agree with their representatives’ policy decisions and approve of their representatives more, even when their representatives earned these favorable ratings by casting votes these voters disagree with, and from groups misaligned with voters’ views. We call this tendency heuristic projection. Across four studies, we find considerable support for this pathology and only occasional support for the traditional view.

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“…Often, ads feature a prominent celebrity endorser asking that voters take action, such as voting for a particular candidate or signing a petition. Because endorsements—especially those by celebrities—are particularly persuasive (Neddenriep and Nownes 2014), we expect that ads featuring calls to action are related positively to the use of endorsements.…”

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I Approve This Candidate: The Strategic Use of Ad Endorsements in the 2008 Election

Paul

York

2015

APSC

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Contextual and strategic factors that influence the use of endorsements in political advertisements represent an underexplored area of the scholarly literature, resulting in a gap between the art and science of campaigning and the advertising-effects literature. This article uses data from the Wisconsin Ad Project to study endorsements in ads aired during the 2008 election cycle. We show that endorsements are used strategically by campaigns and that four factors—candidate characteristics, campaign characteristics, ad format, and timing—affect whether an ad containing an endorsement is aired. Specifically, endorsements are more likely to appear in positive ads, are primarily used by incumbents and female candidates, are less likely to appear in competitive races, and tend to air less frequently as a campaign progresses.

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An experimental investigation of the effects of interest-group endorsements on poorly aligned partisans in the 2008 presidential election

Cited by 7 publications

References 33 publications

How interest groups influence public opinion: Arguments matter more than the sources

How interest groups influence public opinion: Arguments matter more than the sources

Heuristic Projection: How Interest Group Cues Can Undermine Democratic Accountability

I Approve This Candidate: The Strategic Use of Ad Endorsements in the 2008 Election

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