The #MeToo movement and attitudes toward President Trump in the wake of a sexual misconduct allegation

Klar, Samara; McCoy, Alexandra

doi:10.1080/21565503.2021.1908374

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“…1 First, using survey data from the same question asked in 1991, 2016, and 2018, we show that sexual misconduct only recently became an issue that one party owns. Sexual misconduct by candidates and officials is far from new (e.g., Clarence Thomas, Bill Clinton, or Herman Cain), but the public only recently shifted from party balance towards disproportionate Democratic ownership of the issue (Hansen and Dolan 2020;Klar and McCoy 2021a). Consistent with our expectations, observational patterns and results from a survey experiment show that elite party responses to the Kavanaugh confirmation shifted public views towards Democratic ownership and away from Republican ownership on handling sexual misconduct well.…”

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Partisanship in the #MeToo Era

Holman¹,

Kalmoe²

2021

Perspect. polit.

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Partisanship structures mass politics by shaping the votes, policy views, and political perceptions of ordinary people. Even so, substantial shifts in partisanship can occur when elites signal clear differences on a political issue and attentive citizens update their views of party reputations. Mismatched partisans who strongly care about the issue respond by changing parties in a process of “issue evolution” when writ large. Others simply update their views to match their party in a “conflict extension” process. We build on these models by integrating the largely separate research strands of party issue ownership. Using sexual misconduct as a critical case study, we argue that partisan change can occur rapidly when party elites move strategically to take ownership of an issue, thereby clarifying differences between the parties. Using a quasi-experiment, a survey experiment, and data from dozens of national surveys, we find recent, rapid shifts in party reputations on #MeToo, views of the issue, party votes, and broader party support.

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“…Trump responded by bringing women who accused Clinton's husband of sexual misconduct to the debate. Research on voting behavior in 2016 suggests that the Access Hollywood tape galvanized some opposition to Trump, but may have also solidified support for him among some Republicans (Cassese 2019;Klar and McCoy 2021b).…”

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Partisanship in the #MeToo Era

Holman¹,

Kalmoe²

2021

Perspect. polit.

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“…More generally, liberals consider sexual harassment as a significantly larger problem than conservatives do (Craig and Cossette 2022;van der Linden and Panagopoulos 2019). Notably, these studies have been conducted in the context of American politics, and the results could potentially be explained by partisan reactions to a specific context, such as the many accusations of sexual misconduct perpetrated by then Republican President Trump (Klar and McCoy 2021). Thus, the relationship between ideology and attitudes towards sexist abuse might not generalize beyond the American case.…”

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Online Abuse of Politicians: Experimental Evidence on Politicians' own Perceptions

Pedersen,

Petersen,

Thau

2023

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Criticism from dissatisfied citizens is an inevitable part of being an elected politician in a democracy. However, when negative feedback from citizens turns into outright abuse, this can have pernicious personal and democratic consequences. In this study, we therefore investigate how politicians perceive criticisms, insults, threats, and sexist remarks in social media comments. Based on a survey experiment with more than 700 politicians from the local, regional, and national levels, we show that politicians’ assessment of the abusiveness of negative messages are not only affected by the content of the messages but also by political ideology and gender. Left-leaning politicians find negative social media comments to be more abusive than right-leaning politicians do. In addition, politicians are more averse to negative comments targeting women than negative comments targeting men, and male politicians are generally less averse to negative comments than female politicians are. Somewhat surprisingly, politicians are generally not affected by in-party biases, as they exhibit similar levels of aversion towards negative messages directed at co-partisans and out-partisans. While previous research has focused on the extent to which politicians receive online abuse, few studies have examined how politicians perceive potentially abusive messages, and our study thus provides novel insights into what exactly politicians consider to be abusive behavior on social media.

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“…Both processes lead to the same outcome: the tendency to support policies that are endorsed by a favored politician. This can occur when individuals evaluate nearly any political object or event, including scandals (Klar and McCoy 2021), economic crises (Bisgaard 2015), or the quality of political leaders (Donovan et al 2020). A large body of work shows that voters tend to shift their policy preferences in order to agree with ideologically similar leaders (or to disagree with ideologically dissimilar ones, e.g., Abramowitz 1978;Broockman and Butler 2017;Druckman, Peterson, and Slothuus 2013;Lenz 2012).…”

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The Competing Influence of Policy Content and Political Cues: Cross-Border Evidence from the United States and Canada

Skinner

Gravelle²,

Klar

2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

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When individuals evaluate policies, they consider both the policy’s content and its endorsers. In this study, we investigate the conditions under which these sometimes competing factors guide preferences. In an effort to combat the spread of COVID-19, American President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau bilaterally agreed to close their shared border to refugee claimants and asylum seekers. These ideologically opposed leaders endorsing a common policy allows us to test the influence of a well-known foreign neighbor on domestic policy evaluations. With a large cross-national survey experiment, we first find that Canadians and Americans follow ideological positions in evaluating the policy, with right-leaning respondents offering the most support. With an experiment, we reveal how both populations shift their views when told about their neighboring leader’s endorsement. Our findings highlight ideologically motivated reasoning across an international border, with broad implications for understanding how individuals weigh a policy’s content against its political cues.

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The #MeToo movement and attitudes toward President Trump in the wake of a sexual misconduct allegation

Cited by 12 publications

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Partisanship in the #MeToo Era

Partisanship in the #MeToo Era

Online Abuse of Politicians: Experimental Evidence on Politicians' own Perceptions

The Competing Influence of Policy Content and Political Cues: Cross-Border Evidence from the United States and Canada

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