Longitudinal Effects of Religious Media on Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage

Perry, Samuel L.; Snawder, Kara J.

doi:10.1007/s12119-016-9357-y

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“…Consumption of religious media shapes attitudes, including those on issues decided by the Supreme Court, and group identification. Perry and Schnabel () show that consumption of religious media changes attitudes about same‐sex marriage and reinforces identity within the religious subculture (see also Perry and Snawder ).…”

Section: The Political Behavior Of Evangelical Protestantsmentioning

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Group Identification and Support for the Supreme Court: Evidence from Evangelical Protestants

Kromphardt

Smith

Starling

2019

Scientific Study of Religion

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Research on the determinants of the U.S. Supreme Court's institutional support among the public focuses on three factors at the level of the individual, including satisfaction with its performance, knowledge of the judiciary, and support for democratic values. Evidence from the group level has revealed that the relative importance of these factors can vary, despite the predictions of positivity theory that the effects of all factors should be similar across all subsets of the U.S. population. We seek to explain this inconsistency between theory and evidence through an analysis of evangelical Protestants, a politically powerful and theoretically compelling group. Drawing on groupbased studies, we develop a principled account of when group members will base their institutional support more strongly than others do on their satisfaction with the Court's recent performance, and identify defining features of the information environment of evangelical Protestants that satisfy the model's components. We report evidence from a national survey that the effects of all three major factors differ systematically for evangelical Protestants. We discuss implications of our analysis for an ongoing debate over positivity theory and for identifying other groups for whom institutional and specific support will be strongly linked.

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Section: The Political Behavior Of Evangelical Protestantsmentioning

confidence: 99%