Racial Attitudes and the “New South”

Kuklinski, James H.; Cobb, Michael D.; Gilens, Martin

doi:10.2307/2998167

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“…These advantages have contributed to their recent prominence in political science (e.g. Gilens 2001;Kuklinski et al 1997;Sniderman et al 1991;Taber and Lodge 2006).…”

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confidence: 97%

The Neglected Power of Elite Opinion Leadership to Produce Antipathy Toward the News Media: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Ladd

2009

Polit Behav

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Today, most Americans dislike the news media as an institution. This has led to considerable debate about why people dislike the media and how their public standing could be improved. This paper contributes to this literature by using a survey experiment to test the effect of several different considerations on evaluations of the media. It finds, consistent with the broader literature on political persuasion, that elite partisan opinion leadership can powerfully shape these attitudes. Additionally, it finds that tabloid coverage creates antipathy toward the press regardless of predispositions and that horserace coverage has a negative effect on opinions among politically aware citizens on both sides of the political spectrum. Contrary to some claims in the literature, this study finds no detectable effect of news negativity.

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“…These advantages have contributed to their recent prominence in political science (e.g. Gilens 2001;Kuklinski et al 1997;Sniderman et al 1991;Taber and Lodge 2006).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 97%

The Neglected Power of Elite Opinion Leadership to Produce Antipathy Toward the News Media: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Ladd

2009

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“…Research consistently shows the tendency of respondents to answer questions in a way that will be viewed favorably by others (Presser and Stinson, 1998;Arnold and Feldman, 1981;Kuklinski et al, 1997a;Davis and Silver, 2003;Kuran and McCaffery, 2008). In works on affirmative action (Kuklinski et al, 1997b), same-sex marriage (Janus, 2010), closing the US border (Janus, 2010), immigration policy preferences (Knoll, 2013b), nativism (Knoll, 2013a) and race attitudes (Kuklinski et al, 1997a), social desirability bias leads to significant under-reporting of opposition.…”

Section: Social Desirability Biasmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…In works on affirmative action (Kuklinski et al, 1997b), same-sex marriage (Janus, 2010), closing the US border (Janus, 2010), immigration policy preferences (Knoll, 2013b), nativism (Knoll, 2013a) and race attitudes (Kuklinski et al, 1997a), social desirability bias leads to significant under-reporting of opposition. Pertinent to the issue at hand, social desirability bias can result in a large underestimation of actual level of anti-immigrant sentiment (Janus, 2010) and support for a given immigration policy (Knoll, 2013a andKnoll, 2013b).…”

Section: Social Desirability Biasmentioning

confidence: 98%

Does Islam play a role in anti-immigrant sentiment? An experimental approach

Creighton

Jamal

2015

Social Science Research

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“…Regardless of measure used, at least 45% of the nationally representative sample of white respondents rate blacks as lazier than they rate whites, and at least 39% rate blacks as less intelligent than they rate whites. Additionally, given that social desirability bias has been shown to lead to the underreporting of racial prejudice and of opposition to racial policies and black candidates (Gilens et al 1998;Kuklinski et al 1997), we might expect that the ACASI measure will reveal greater levels of prejudice than could be detected using the interviewer measure. The results presented in Fig.…”

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How Explicit Racial Prejudice Hurt Obama in the 2008 Election

2010

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Some commentators claim that white Americans put prejudice behind them when evaluating presidential candidates in 2008. Previous research examining whether white racism hurts black candidates has yielded mixed results. Fortunately, the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama provides an opportunity to examine more rigorously whether prejudice disadvantages black candidates. I also make use of an innovation in the measurement of racial stereotypes in the 2008 American National Election Studies survey, which yields higher levels of reporting of racial stereotypes among white respondents. I find that negative stereotypes about blacks significantly eroded white support for Barack Obama. Further, racial stereotypes do not predict support for previous Democratic presidential candidates or current prominent Democrats, indicating that white voters punished Obama for his race rather than his party affiliation. Finally, prejudice had a particularly large impact on the voting decisions of Independents and a substantial impact on Democrats but very little influence on Republicans.

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Racial Attitudes and the “New South”

Cited by 168 publications

References 24 publications

The Neglected Power of Elite Opinion Leadership to Produce Antipathy Toward the News Media: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

The Neglected Power of Elite Opinion Leadership to Produce Antipathy Toward the News Media: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Does Islam play a role in anti-immigrant sentiment? An experimental approach

How Explicit Racial Prejudice Hurt Obama in the 2008 Election

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